I’m reviewing the Drobo right now and am looking for some real-world user experiences. Besides your overall impressions, I’m especially interested in learning how you’ve used this device and whether you’ve noticed issues with noise.
If you’ve got a Drobo, leave a comment here. If you’d prefer to communicate offline, drop me an e-mail message: ed[hyphen]blog[at]bott[dot]com.
Ed Bott (@ wordpress.com) 
I use the Drobo and like it.
I posted on my experience here.
Prior to the Drobo arriving I posted on why I disliked RAID.
I have not noticed issues with noise, but then I keep it in a server room.
[Edited to make links clickable. – EB]
How would this go connected up to Windows Home Server?
As WHS balances storage, would this be a ‘double balance’ and you would have no idea where the data was if something crashed?
I’ll be discussing in my review. Short answer is that WHS sees this as a single drive. If you plug Drobo in as a secondary drive on WHS you could configure Shared Folders to be not duplicated.
Thanks Ed.
Well now you’ve got me hooked, Ed. I hadn’t heard of the Drobo, but I sure want one now that I have… Hurry it up with that review, will ya?
Coming up tomorrow at ZDNet.