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(More customer reviews)I ordered the DroboElite for my office. We were running short of space and I wasn't to happy with the stability of the servers. Installation of the control panel media was a bit awkward. Because I wasn't paying attention it asked me to reboot the server before the full install was completed. Once I noticed the check box I told the installer not to reboot the installation completed.
Another issue was the Windows ISCSI application. It didn't work on the 64-bit version of Windows server 2003. I had to search through Data Robotics online knowledge base to find the link to get the latest version from Microsoft. It took far to long to find that on the Drobo site.
Once everything was in I was able to connect to the Drobo and look around. Again I made a mistake and went home without configuring the Static IP addresses. Since the USB cable was in I couldn't see the drives to partition them.
Once I get that squared away it was a breeze to set the unit up. I installed 4 new 2TB drives, an old 250GB drive and 80GB drive I had sitting around. The Drobo saw them and set them up with no involvement from me. After the drives were set, I created my volumes and assigned them to the servers I needed.
Now I've given the system 4 stars overall. The reason was the software. I think it needs a bit more work. I ran into a rather sticky wicket when I made a mistake and assigned an IP already in use. When I tried to reset that, I rebooted the Drobo and for some odd reason the volume I assigned to one server was now pointing to another. I had to shut everything down and restart first the Drobo, then the server I wanted the volume assigned to then the server that manages the Drobo. That corrected that issue.
I think that might be a bit of a bug. Also I think the documentation could be a bit better.
Saying that I do recommend this as a small office solution. Last year I spent over $70K installing a full blown storage array for our web site. I really didn't want to do that for a small development office. $3500 is a good price for our needs.
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DroboElite 8-bay storage array offers the best data storage experience for SMB and departments looking to consolidate storage across multiple servers. Features multi-host support, dual iSCSI ports, up to 255 Smart Volumes, dual-drive redundancy, automated data protection, and self healing technology. VMware certified. Expands to 16TB and beyond. Rackmountable.
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