Comments for Data Robotics Launch High End DroboPro 8 Drive Unit at http://www.automatedhome.co.uk , comment 1 to 4 out of 4 comments http://www.automatedhome.co.uk Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:03:31 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Announcements/Data-Robotics-Launch-High-End-DroboPro-8-Drive-Unit.html#comment-387 Price... everywhere i can find it (expansys/rent a raid/span) have it for about £1,100 PLUS VAT not including VAT. - Chris Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:00:47 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Announcements/Data-Robotics-Launch-High-End-DroboPro-8-Drive-Unit.html#comment-378 I don't quite get the hesitation with the Drobo. There's no such thing as an industry standard implementation of hardware RAID. Any box that fails will require replacement with a box that has the same controller in it (same as Drobo). - weldon Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:31:18 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Announcements/Data-Robotics-Launch-High-End-DroboPro-8-Drive-Unit.html#comment-377 BeyondRaid is a recent name for what Drobo has been using for a couple of years now. If you want Vanilla RAID then go for that instead. Mind you, there are plenty of horror stories on our mailing list of users losing data to standard RAID. Whatever the form, RAID is never an alternative to proper backups. - Otto-Mate Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:23:32 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Announcements/Data-Robotics-Launch-High-End-DroboPro-8-Drive-Unit.html#comment-376 BeyondRAID sounds like a fantastic bit of tech but I am not sure I'd want to tie myself into a proprietary long term backup/storage solution. It should be made an industry standard like RAID. - Conor McCluskey Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:02:36 +0100