I’ve just received word from SnarkyLady that my hard drives arrived this morning and that my Drobo should be arriving this afternoon.  So I’ll have some fun new toys to play with tonight.

Why do I need 6 TB of space?  Well, because Drobo does data protection I won’t actually get to use all 6 TB of that space, but I’ll be using it to store media on.  I have a distributed media system here in the house (which I’ll outline in a later post) so I need lots of storage to store all of our DVDs and recorded TV on.  It’s a pretty cool system that works really well, but it does suck up the hard drive space, that’s for sure!