I just wish they were able to link an endless amount to each other, instead of just 2.
but I guess a potential 16tb*2 drive is big enough...
eer, 16*(2/3)... 10tb each, 20tb drive...
still ain't so bad for raid5 style protection and speed.
but, ATM.. the max is a 6*(2/3) = 4.1tb per box. 8.2 total max with 2 boxes.
I'm sure they will come out with a "professional" grade series of their product with more bays, or more able to link together... something.
"Now introducing Drobo Pro. for small AND large businesses!"
Or a competitor mimicking their same tricky raid5/mirror setup.
I basically want it just for storage, with low level accessing... not a main server.
but I bet it could act pretty nice as a web server of some kind (unprotected), since it can be a network drive with the droboshare addition.
Course... if you had a router that let you run your own software on it... you could scan the cookies from the user for their session ID and run a DB query to check permissions.
but I don't know much about the super high end expensive routers and what they are capable of...