PSA: Don’t trust your valued data to proprietary products. When they break you’ll be up a proverbial creek without a paddle.

The Drobo FS honeymoon period

Back in 2011 I bought a Drobo FS with the intention of using it as a home backup solution. The features it offered were exactly what I was looking for: some RAID-like setup promising single parity as well as a neat ability to setup network Time Machine shares. I filled it with 5 2TB drives and let it run.