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Originally Posted by erooup
Its a JBOD setup. He can hotswap it all he want, but the data on the disk is gone. There is no raid controller to rebuild it, and no disk to rebuild it from since its just a stripeset.
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Not true.
"Drobo can combine up to 4 SATA I/II HDDs of any sizes together to form a single virtual disk, which sounds like JBOD. However, say, if you install 3 250GB HDDs, you'll be left with only about 500GB of total usable protected space instead of 750GB. Drobo supposedly uses block-stripping with distributed parity to provide the best level of protection and tolerance. When one of the disks fail, there's no loss of any data."
http://www.everythingusb.com/drobo_12314.html