I can’t believe I missed this news, but here it is reported by William Gallagher at AppleInsider.
Now I have never owned a drobo, but I always aspired to for backup, but even if the company is still around this sure makes me worry.
The thing is that there just aren’t that many NAS’s that are great with Mac.
At one point I had a Synology where I tried moving my iTunes lIbrary, but that did not work out. It jacked up my whole library and lost a bunch of media, so I lost thousands of songs, and years of track metadata as well. And there is the whole issue of companies like Synology making you move to new hardware for software updates, since they use proprietary system software.
There was a recent article at Maximum PC on rolling your own NAS using Ubuntu Server LTS build which does major releases every 2 years instead of 6, and because each release is supported with 5 years of full support, and 5 years of extended security support, but that runs NTFS, and not mac HFS+ which scares me, and it since it is not in the Linux kernal, it can’t be written to (though it can be read).
It is too bad Mac doesn’t make a simple NAS software so you can roll your own drobo type device for Time Machine.