DroBo

A friend from film school was bragging to me about this Drobo thingy that I hadn't heard of, turns out it is awesome. Basically, it is a easy to work RAID external hard drive. It connects by USB, easy there. Holds 4 drives and needs at least two. Auto-back up, NOT a one button back up software like some of those tricks out there. If a drive fails or is full, simply pop it out and insert and new/larger one, WHILE IT IS STILL ON and the back up drive will rebuild the lost info using the RAID configureation.

It is good for that guy that had all of this dvds in a digital format or tons of media crap or both, like me. Needless to say this is a great tool for video editors too. I know I have been working on a project that is 2+hours long and 4 cameras running at a time....storage becomes a burden. Drobo fixes that. If anyone has lost a hard disk then you know it is hell.

here is a CNET review
http://reviews.cnet.com/external-hard-drives/drobo/4505-3190_7-32470303.html

Hands on I can't say but my friend was bragging about it. and is bringing it across the country with him to that should speak of his trust in the product