Re:I'm getting a Drobo (Score 1)

I have several drobo products and I can say they have been great...For a really good solution (although pricey) you can get 2 Drobo FS pop a few drives in them and then set one up at a remote location for offsite, put a point to point vpn between them, and then use Drobo sync. It is bascially their version of rsync...(well it actually IS rsync, but they put their little gui on it from the drobo dashboard. So you can back up your data to the first Drobo FS, put the second on the local network, and then activate the sync, allow the data to copy over to the offsite drive, take it offsite, setup your vpn connection and then you simply get your changes added whenever you set the sync for. Its a great little "private cloud" solution. That being said, I would only do this if you have a few TB's of data to deal with that you HAVE to keep local, for everyone else, Amazon or rackspace cloud is great, or even dropbox. I am moving all of my consulting clients to dropbox for file storage and moving their email to google apps for biz. This can totally eliminate all local IT stuff for small to mid sized businesses. If you have a data intensive need, then the local ->private cloud Drobo solution works great too.