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Bob,

I think it was discussed in here:

http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/harddrives/index.html

I had heard of some firmware upgrades causing total loss and also some  
users losing all data when adding a new drive.

Steve

On Jan 11, 2009, at 1:09 PM, Bob Patin wrote:

> Steve,
>
> Do you have any links to the Drono failures you mentioned? I'm not  
> finding it...
>
> Thx,
>
> Bob Patin
> Longterm Solutions
> bob at longtermsolutions.com
> --
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>
> On Jan 11, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Bob Patin <bob at patin.com> wrote:
>
>> Hmm... that's the first I've heard of that. I'll probably still  
>> burn DVDs sometimes, or take a pair of small drives and trade them  
>> back and forth from my bank box.
>>
>> Bob Patin
>> Longterm Solutions
>> bob at longtermsolutions.com
>> --
>> sent from iPhone
>>
>> On Jan 11, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Bentech Forums <wisdom at BentechAPS.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Bob,
>>>
>>> The Drobo is nice but I have read about a few catastrophic  
>>> failures so make sure that you also have an additional off-site  
>>> backup of some kind.
>>>
>>> You might look at one of the RTX drives from Wiebetech.com which  
>>> allow you to quickly swap hard drives so that you can easily take  
>>> a backup drive off-site.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> On Jan 9, 2009, at 4:55 PM, Bob Patin wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, that's totally true; I hadn't thought about just taking a  
>>>> 500GB drive, of which I have several sitting unused, and just  
>>>> copying to there as a 3rd backup, and then when I've filled it,  
>>>> just deleting the oldest ones.
>>>>
>>>> At 10GB per backup, I could put 50 before I have to start  
>>>> bleeding off the old ones; I may just do that instead of worrying  
>>>> about DVDs for this machine...
>>>>
>>>> Or I may just bite the bullet and buy another Drobo and use it  
>>>> for my web servers instead of DVDs. I have 7 web servers, a  
>>>> couple of which have huge web documents folders... but with a  
>>>> Drobo filled with 4 1.5 TB drives, I could do a LOT of backing up  
>>>> before I'd have to start deleting the old stuff... :)
>>>>
>>>> Any downside to my thought, other than that I have to throw away  
>>>> the older backups (which isn't a problem with web site backups)?
>>>>
>>>> BP
>>>>
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>>>> On Jan 9, 2009, at 5:40 PM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I use FreeAgent Extreme for that purpose, it's alot cheaper than
>>>>> spending time in Toast.
>>>>>
>>>>> ggt
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