My Drobo is very happy now

If you read the comments around the Net about Drobos, you may well conclude that they are unreliable and buggy.

For some time, my Drobo (the four-bay Series 2 with USB and Firewire) had been rebooting itself, shutting down and spending days rebuilding itself. I thought I’d have to pension it off and buy something else – not another Drobo.

Before I binned it, I tried what it said on the Drobo site, silly though it sounded.

I replaced the Firewire cable for a nice Neet  one from Amazon – I really rate their cables and have them all over the flat. The Drobo rebuilt in record time, and hasn’t missed a beat since – that’s several months. The drive has also started going to sleep and waking up as it should.

The moral of the story? If you have a misbehaving Drobo, replace Drobo’s own rubbish one with something decent.