Drobo Opening

I couldn't have been more surprised when I won a Drobo for linking to a website! Though I track a number of different blogs everyday, I don't read each blog every day. I do look at the traffic on this site though most days. In the process of doing just that I noticed a large spike in site hits. Almost twice my normal hits that I get each day. As I was investigating why this might be so, I saw that almost all of the extra was driven by one site. MyDL.Me. I quickly jumped over there to see why. After some reading I discovered that I had won myself a Drobo!!

For those that don't know what a Drobo is, it's similar to a NAS, but can work like a giant hard drive when connected via a FireWire 800. You can also Daisy Chain 2 Drobos via a Firewire 800 which made me quite happy because I had already purchased one some months back. For those without a FireWire 800 connection you can also use a USB 2.0 connection or purchase the DroboShare to connect it to an ethernet cable.

My thanks to MyDL.Me, the folks at Drobo for getting this unit so quickly to me and picking my site as the winner!

I did want to add one configuration issue that I had that was handled in the Troubleshooting guide. I would not have had this issue had my drives not been already used by my other unit. When I put the drives in, the new Drobo unit must have somehow known they were from a previous unit so all of the Drobo's lights were red. When I read up on this issue I discovered that I needed to do a reset by pushing the reset button with a paper clip located on the rear of the unit and then plug it in. After this was done I was up and going without any issues.