The Drobo… The Ideal Personal Storage Device
November 18th, 2008
How do you store all those digitized photos, scanned documents, office documents and music? As rich media (photos, video, movies, music) continues to devour your storage capacity of your local hard drive, you need a solution that allows you to easily manage, protect, and scale storage for your PC or Mac. As an amateur Genealogist, I have collected gigabytes of digital data on just my own family that has taken me years to acquire. What would you do or how would you feel if you lost everything you had worked so hard on?
I’m amazed at the number of amateur and professional photographers, genealogists, business owners and individuals who have NO BACK UP STRATEGY. Many people have purchased single high capacity external hard drives, available from retails such as Costco, Staple and Office Depot (such as “Western Digital My Book”) as their extended external storage drive solution. The problem with this solution is that there is no built in-safety mechanism should the single drive fail. I cannot tell you how many people I know who simply have all of their digital media stored on a single hard drive, hoping that it won’t fail. IT WILL FAIL! All hard drives fail. It’s not a matter of “if” it’s a matter of when. Now some of the more pro-active people may have bought two of the large capacity external drives and chosen to use back-up software to back-up one drive to the other. The problems with this solution are many, including the possibility that your back-up software silently fails to replicate the data.