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Post subject: DroboShare vs. HP Media Vault 2120
 Posted: May 08, 2008 - 01:05 AM CST
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Drobo + DroboShare: Network attached storage options are about as exciting as drying your laundry. The Drobo, on the other hand, is kind of like drying your laundry with a flamethrower. This storage automaton takes care of just about everything a normal RAID-based device does, but with virtually no effort on your part. Better still, it plays friendly with every manner of OS: Linux, Mac, Windows or whatever bric-a-brac home computing environment you can throw at it. The only problem — as many have noted — is the lack of a GigE port. But that’s where the DroboShare comes in.
WIRED Idiot-proof set-up. Self mounting (thank you, Samba file server.) No software required. Supports almost all major file systems, including NTFS (Windows), HFS+ (Mac OS X), EXT3 (Linux) or FAT32 (Various) so you can use it in multiple PC settings. Flexible: mix and match drive capacities, brands and speeds so as your insatiable lust for storage grows, so too will Drobo’s data storing prowess.
TIRED All that expandability and ease-of-use comes with a ridiculous price. All told, you're paying $700 for the Drobo and DroboShare (tip: search teh Internetz for package deals and save a few ducats) — and that's sans SATA drives. Four drive bays + fan = leaf blower level noise. No UPnP or DLNA media server functionality so no remote Web access. USB-Ethernet bottleneck hampers speed.
HP Media Vault 2120
WIRED Backup your backups by adding an additional drive to the 2120 via USB. Serves as a DLNA media server, which paves the way for iTunes music aggregation, photo web sharing, remote access and web-based file browsing. None of that data corruption bugginess that’s been plaguing WHS. Cheap at 300 bones.
TIRED Mac tolerant, but not Mac-friendly: access stored data from a Mac, but set-up is restricted to a Windows machines only. Only two drive bays instead of the typical four. The Media Vault's software can handle only file-level backups, not full system backups.
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