Drobo Ragnarok
Innocence is a catalyst for magic. - Mary and the Witches Flower I bought a Drobo way back in 2011 to move my content off my internal drive and move it onto beautiful attached storage. For the longest time my Drobo 2G was connected to my AirPort Extreme as an "AirDisk", a cool feature where the AirPort turned any drive into a NAS. Of course, Apple retired the AirPort Extreme so when I switched to Eero the Drobo moved to be attached storage to my server (a MacBook Air 2011). Then two things happened at the end of 2019. The first was I realized that my Drobo was connected via USB 1.1 (12 Mbps) and that it was the slowest link in the chain of streaming content off my Drobo to the various devices around the house (and over the internet!). The second was a red light of death! One of my 1TB drives failed, but truth be told, going 8 years before my first drive failure was pretty good. So I replaced the failed drive with a new Seagate, and after a 200 hour rebuild, everything was ...