Data Robotics DroboElite review
in Storage appliances
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Verdict
An impressive IP SAN appliance that lets you mix and match drives of different brands, sizes and speeds
Review Date: 30 Mar 2010
Reviewed By: Dave Mitchell
Price when reviewed: £2,179 (£2,560 inc VAT)
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Overpriced?
No mention (that I could see) of whether any disks are included for one's £2½K. If not, why does it cost three times the price of (say) a Thecus N7700? And if you get (say) 10 TB of disk, why does it cost twice the price of the aforementioned box similarly equipped?
By JohnGray7581 on 31 Mar 2010 
Unfair comparison?
This isn't a fair comparison as the N7700 is a NAS appliance with very basic iSCSI features - the DroboElite is a pure IP SAN appliance. You can't mix drives of differing sizes in same array in the N7700 and use all thier capacity, it doesn't have the ability to swap from RAID-5 to -6 and back again on the fly and it supports only seven hard disks. The N7700 can only manage five iSCSI virtual volumes per RAID array whereas the DroboElite supports 255 volumes and offers enterprise level thin provisioning on them all.
By DaveMitchell on 6 Apr 2010
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