muikabochi 208 Posted May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 Anyone with any experience of Drobo? Looks interesting as I re-think my computer setup. Link to post Share on other sites
snowbender 3 Posted May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 I saw "dorobo"! Never heard of that, but it actually looks quite interesting. Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 No, but I'm tempted to get a NAS which looks like the same thing. I'd like whatever I buy to be able to stream tunes, media and photos to Ipad/Ipod touch and maybe Apple TV quickly and painlessly without a pc being involved. Streaming to windows is piss easy, so its iOS that throws up the problems. Link to post Share on other sites
tokabochi 9 Posted May 19, 2012 Share Posted May 19, 2012 That looks really interesting, something even I could work with. Thanks for the tips folks will look into more. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted May 19, 2012 Share Posted May 19, 2012 what is it and what does it do? Link to post Share on other sites
1 4 Posted May 19, 2012 Share Posted May 19, 2012 Basically you can stick multiple hard disc drives into the thing and use it for easy-to-do (supposedly) backups. Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted May 19, 2012 Share Posted May 19, 2012 I don't know this one in particular but it looks like its a NAS which you can look up on wiki. It means "network accessible storage" or something like that. A clever version of an external hard drive with more functions. Its like having a mini server (i.e., data providing) computer in your house. Since its off computer, you can also use it for backups. Aside from just storing your own files, you can fill one with downloaded music and movies and stream them to wifi devices in your house. Laptops, tablets, Apple tv, PS3 etc. Admittedly, you can do a similar thing by having a main computer in your house and adding more hard drives to it, but then you can't turn it off and setting it up might be more of a pain than with a dedicated NAS with a stripped down interface. Having a separate NAS is also more resilient. Acting as a server will also slow your main computer down. A clever NAS can run apps, such as bit torrent or on the fly conversion of movies to formats you can play on iOS. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 Backing up my pc really annoys me, and I don't do it properly and often enough. I am hoping that iMac might offer a better system for all that lot and looking forward to using it. Link to post Share on other sites
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