Two normal drobos plugged into a DroboShare will act as "one" drobo too. And a DroboShare is basically a custom Linux appliance box, so that's nice.
As for Advanced button - actually plugging the Drobo into the back of a real Linux box, you can get exactly that. There's a whole bunch of tools that let you do crap to it if you really want to.
Poor value in backups is because they were bloody hard to actually do properly - up until Time Machine. 60% of users knew they needed to do backups (bad enough), but 4% actually did regular backups (argh). Now? Anyone with a mac and an external disk or a TimeCapsule has hourly snapshot backups, and most places selling macs will push an external disk onto you for that.
Home penetration for this kind of stuff will come when Apple starts shipping machines pre-built with RAID, and Time Capsules with RAID built in, which will force everyone else to play catchup again. Probably after ZFS support makes it, which will be after ZFS is actually sufficiently bulletproof for home style random breakage, which is not yet. Essentially Home penetration will come when the tech is not just Usable but Invisible. Home users don't even want one button or any options - it just has to come along with the whole package in one unit.
Drinkies? Heh, I have zero free time - dancing 3 nights a week... OTOH, I'm in Richmond on friday nights every fortnight for dancing with an early evening before 20:30 free.
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Date: 2009-09-30 02:36 (UTC)As for Advanced button - actually plugging the Drobo into the back of a real Linux box, you can get exactly that. There's a whole bunch of tools that let you do crap to it if you really want to.
Poor value in backups is because they were bloody hard to actually do properly - up until Time Machine. 60% of users knew they needed to do backups (bad enough), but 4% actually did regular backups (argh). Now? Anyone with a mac and an external disk or a TimeCapsule has hourly snapshot backups, and most places selling macs will push an external disk onto you for that.
Home penetration for this kind of stuff will come when Apple starts shipping machines pre-built with RAID, and Time Capsules with RAID built in, which will force everyone else to play catchup again. Probably after ZFS support makes it, which will be after ZFS is actually sufficiently bulletproof for home style random breakage, which is not yet. Essentially Home penetration will come when the tech is not just Usable but Invisible. Home users don't even want one button or any options - it just has to come along with the whole package in one unit.
Drinkies? Heh, I have zero free time - dancing 3 nights a week... OTOH, I'm in Richmond on friday nights every fortnight for dancing with an early evening before 20:30 free.