Can you use drobo as jbod

Moreover, for the young budding photographer — having to expend the majority of your limited business budget on photo storage, should never be a concern.

Certainly, not the best use of your time. If you thought easy to manage, protected storage i. Drobo is a smart investment that will enable you to do protect and grow your business. Drobo was designed from the ground up to ensure the easiest and most affordable solution for the safe storage of all your media — from photos, to music and movies.

Drobo does not support JBOD. Anyway thanks again! Backup is having at least 2 copies of the data in 2 different storage devices. Having access to your data is like having a car to get your from places to places.

Single Disk Redundancy - is like having a single spare tyre in the car boot Dual Disk Redundancy - is like having 2 spare tyre in the car boot When there is a flat tyre failed disk , you just change the tyre and continue with your journey. It's not known for its speed, but thats not what you're after anyway.

I would use your remaining internal slot for a clone of your boot drive with superduper in addition to time machine , or scratch disk, etc. You should partition your main drive, or whatever drive is the fastest into like a boot drive partition and media partition. Keep only apps on your boot. Keep other media separate. Remember that if you go the internal raid route of raid0ing the internal 1TB and 2TB, you're gonna need a backup of that.

As conconating or raid0ing the disks will increase your chance of disk failure. In which you'll probably have to buy some external solution anyway. Same goes with the drobo, if you're planning on running a raid 0 or conconated, that would be worse for storage, as you'd have 4 striped disks, increasing the disk failure rate even more. You could run maybe a raid 5 on the drobo, if that's even possible but even at that, i would still back up a raid 5.

The golden rule basically is to backup everything regardless; especially if its something as important as a photo library.

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