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!

After getting the runaround with both UPS and Amazon.com, apparently my Drobo and hard drives aren’t coming today.  One package Amazon says UPS picked up, UPS says they don’t have a record of it (fun, fun).  The other package, the trailer was late coming into the local distribution center so it probably won’t make it until tomorrow.

So, looks like it will be another day or two before I get the Drobo and can start playing with it.  Good thing I still have some hard drive space left to record my TV shows!

I ordered a Drobo yesterday from Amazon.com, along with 4 Seagate 1.5 Terrabyte hard drives to go in it. All the items are scheduled to arrive today, so I’m both excited and happy, since I’m rapidly running out of hard drive space here.  I’ll post more later about my setup here at home so you’ll understand why I’m burning through disk space so quickly.

I’m a tad concerned about the hard drives due to a lot of negative reviews on Amazon.com, but from what I can tell there is a new firmware out for them to fix the issues of those drives that have problems.  It sounds like drives that were newer in terms of manufacturing haven’t had the issues.  Unfortunately, those drives were the only 1.5TB drives I could find.

Once I get the Drobo up and running and use it for a bit, I’ll post a review.  Anyone else out there using a Drobo?