Touch and Drobo?

[Peter Stockwell]

Will the Touch be able to manage a directly attached storage device like a drobo?

[funkstar]

Does the Drobo attach and install itself as a standard USB mass storage device?

If so then yes it should work with Touch.

[Peter Stockwell]

Does the Drobo attach and install itself as a standard USB mass storage device?

If so then yes it should work with Touch.

Well, that's the part I'm not sure about.

[SuperQ]

Yes, afaik, the Drobo is USB mass storage. It does have a configuration software that you would need to use on a PC first.

[fuzzyT]

Yes.

Drobo attaches either by USB 2.0 or Firewire 800. So the Touch _should_ mount it just like any other drive.

http://www.drobo.com/products/drobo.php

Question: Is there any limit to the size of volumes that the Touch can mount? (Drobo can present as much as 16TB as a single volume.)

They also sell a Drobo Share module that adds Gigabit Ethernet and the ability to host other services that consumer NAS boxes generally feature (http,ftp,rsync,dlna,etc.)

http://www.drobo.com/products/droboshare.php