http://tangledwires.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/indroducing%e2%80%a6-drobo/ looking to straighten them out... Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:44:47 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://tangledwires.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/indroducing%e2%80%a6-drobo/#comment-272 Gary Davis Sat, 23 Jun 2007 03:09:18 +0000 http://tangledwires.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/indroducing%e2%80%a6-drobo/#comment-272 OK, so I read your review...liked it...went to the site...read the FAQs. I want one. I think U.S. Robotics gets it, mostly. That is except for the one small flaw you mention, i.e. no embedded back-up. There is such a dismaying list of alternatives in that space that U.S. Robotics obviously has decided to pass that decision to the consumer or the channel. I think they should make a choice and then offer consumers that choice with similar assurances of simplicity. Since they have decided to leave that to the channel there is an opportiunity for integrators/re-sellers but that means the Drobo becomes forgetable in the ensuing confusion. Back-up should be as painless and simplistic as the Drobo (assuming it works to spec). This is where the "rub" comes in. Most back-up software creators still don't get it, and create user interfaces that are extremely off-putish to the average consumer. Drobo is a great name, yet it risks getting "lost in space" by virtue of this obvious omission. OK, so I read your review…liked it…went to the site…read the FAQs.
I want one. I think U.S. Robotics gets it, mostly. That is except for the one small flaw you mention, i.e. no embedded back-up. There is such a dismaying list of alternatives in that space that U.S. Robotics obviously has decided to pass that decision to the consumer or the channel. I think they should make a choice and then offer consumers that choice with similar assurances of simplicity. Since they have decided to leave that to the channel there is an opportiunity for integrators/re-sellers but that means the Drobo becomes forgetable in the ensuing confusion. Back-up should be as painless and simplistic as the Drobo (assuming it works to spec). This is where the “rub” comes in. Most back-up software creators still don’t get it, and create user interfaces that are extremely off-putish to the average consumer. Drobo is a great name, yet it risks getting “lost in space” by virtue of this obvious omission.

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