ZFS. Offsite. Drobo-like. Iometer results. QNAP. Build Your Own Fibre Channel SAN For Less Than $1000 - Part 1 - RAID Install, Openfiler Install. RAID Installation First we are going to configure our RAID-5 array, and then install Openfiler on our system disk.
The install process is long; it took about eight hours, largely waiting and more waiting. Build your own Drobo-Replacement based on ZFS « Agile Developer, Berlin, Germany. The Drobo hype I saw the first Drobo presentation video on YouTube almost 2 years ago. Since then I was longing to get one, but the price for an empty box being 490,- € without a single harddrive was too much in my oppinion. As a regular podcast listener I heared everywhere about the sexyness of the Drobo: MacBreak Weekly mentions it in every episode, the guys at BitsUndSo are collecting them like crazy, and finally Tim Pritlove also got one. But then he mentioned on his podcast Mobile Macs his strange difficulties with the Drobo which made me think a little bit more about the subject.