Replacement for Drobo B800i
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@Reid-Cooper said:
Sounds like the Drobo B810i might be ideal. If the B800i has worked well for so long and the only issue is that it is getting long in the tooth, going to the replacement model would be the logical step. Maybe the drives can even be moved from the old chassis to the new?
What are the chances that the drives are as old as the chasis?
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@dafyre said:
@Reid-Cooper said:
Sounds like the Drobo B810i might be ideal. If the B800i has worked well for so long and the only issue is that it is getting long in the tooth, going to the replacement model would be the logical step. Maybe the drives can even be moved from the old chassis to the new?
What are the chances that the drives are as old as the chasis?
They die one by one, though. You can replace them when they die if you want. The Drobo units are RAID 6. Slow, but not terribly risky.
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@Reid-Cooper said:
@dafyre said:
@Reid-Cooper said:
Sounds like the Drobo B810i might be ideal. If the B800i has worked well for so long and the only issue is that it is getting long in the tooth, going to the replacement model would be the logical step. Maybe the drives can even be moved from the old chassis to the new?
What are the chances that the drives are as old as the chasis?
They die one by one, though. You can replace them when they die if you want. The Drobo units are RAID 6. Slow, but not terribly risky.
It depends on whether the person decided to configure single or dual disk redundancy in the Drobo dashboard if memory serves. It takes a while to rebuild when you replace a drive when you have all spinners, but we use a B800i for a backup target, which has been solid for a number of years.
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Just out of curiosity, since you have so much data on the B800i, how many volumes do you have configured on it? Is it just one or a few? I remember back in the day a tech at Drobo telling me one volume with too much data on it was not a good idea. It's possible some of their firmware upgrades have resolved whatever issue he was pointing out at the time. I didn't want to derail the thread but had a general curiosity.
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@NetworkNerd I have 9 volumes, 5 of which are active. I re-create volumes every so often and let the backups on the other volumes sit until they expire. I am actually in the process of a rebuild. I came in yesterday morning to a failed drive. I put the new drive in at like 11:30 and it still says it has like 40 hours left for rebuild.
