![]() ![]() With a share mapped to a Lenovo System x3550 M5 Windows server, we watched Iometer report sequential read and write rates of 113MB/sec and 112MB/sec. PerformanceĮven though the B810n is endowed with a lowly 1.2GHz quad-core Marvell CPU and non-upgradeable 2GB of DDR3 memory, we found performance over a single Gigabit link to be quite reasonable. The B810n can also host the open-source ownCloud app for private cloud storage and file syncing services. converter trays to allows SSDs to be slotted inĭrobo won’t be worrying the likes of Qnap or Synology for app choices but the B810n does provide ones for remote access, WordPress web site hosting and mobile photo backup which includes a handy geo-location feature. A new feature is automated data tiering using SSDs but you will need to source your own 2.5in. The appliance supports remote replication to another B810n and the DroboDR feature also replicates user accounts and privileges. This information is mirrored in the Dashboard status view which also provides options for email alerting The appliance provides plenty of visual status cues as each drive lever has a multi-colour status LED while a vertical light bar up the right-hand side of the appliance shows used capacity. Installing the Dashboard on each desktop also allows shares to be mapped to them with a couple of mouse clicks. Monitoring and featuresįrom the Dashboard, we created NAS users and assigned read and read/write share access privileges. A quick check on the Dashboard’s Capacity page showed this to be a very accurate estimate. The web site calculator advised us that this mix would give us 31.5TB of usable storage with 9.5TB set aside for protection. We literally had to do nothing further as in under 30 minutes, the Dashboard had upgraded the appliance’s firmware and created a storage pool with single drive redundancy. We tested BeyondRAID’s efficacy by loading a wide mix of drives comprising two 10TB Seagate IronWolfs, and two 8TB Seagate NAS HDDs plus 4TB, 3TB and 2TB Western Digital Red Pro drives. Deployment is smooth as we followed the web-based tutorial and installed the Drobo Dashboard remote management tool when prompted. The appliance is very solidly built and uses carrier-free bays where you push the hard disks in until the lever at the front locks. It works at the block level so you can use drives of differing capacities and Drobo has a quick calculator on its web site that’ll tell you what your total capacity will be when mixing them. ![]() We used Drobo’s accurate web calculator to see how much usable space we’d get from our hard disk mixīeyondRAID automatically places all available hard disks into a virtual storage pool – you simply insert them in the B810n and stand back. For high capacity drives, the rebuild could take days and should another drive fail during this time, you’ll have lost the lot. To rebuild a RAID5 array requires a new drive of the same capacity or larger to be inserted. ![]() Whereas a standard RAID5 array will go into a degraded state, BeyondRAID automatically redistributes data blocks onto the remaining drives (providing there is sufficient space) allowing redundancy to be maintained. It allows you to mix and match SATA drives of different capacities, replace failed drives on the fly and upgrade capacity with larger drives whenever you want.Ī smart feature of BeyondRAID becomes apparent should you suffer a drive failure. The B810n on review may look like a standard 8-bay desktop NAS appliance but there’s a lot more going on behind the scenes that make it quite unique.ĭrobo’s BeyondRAID technology is designed for users that don’t want the hassle of configuring and managing RAID arrays so it has automated everything. Small businesses struggling with big RAID decisions will find Drobo’s innovative storage appliances offer a far simpler alternative. ![]()
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