#mfn handy

[paper-starz]

PUPPET DOODLES!!

[normalnorman]

Was asked for a size comparison like a week ago Im so sorry that I only did it now. I didnt fix up the models just like i do for the renders, didnt include some characters because complication of the scale and making renders wouldnt have been as easy on such a big thing

[listonlouis]

one of the few things that can be solved by hitting it.

[lavafet]

HELLO I AM ABSOLUTELY OBSESSED WITH YOUR ART STYLE. Found you from your MFN stuff and boy howdy are you fanning the hyperfixation flames /pos

AWWW THANK YOU!! ♡♡

I'm glad I can provide more MFN content! I love the game a lot and I would love to see it grow more of a fanbase :}c

Let me try pouring more gasoline on that fire 🔥

Rouch practice sketches below :] no warnings!

[iconicarunxz]

whats my headcannon of the handpuppet?

The “WE ❤️ GETTIN' ALONG” shirt

After their argue

Climb up on george

*WHACK

[cartooemcanhis]

hello mfn fandom i found concept art to feed u all

George before he went bald

who is the green dude, also Lilliana i think u may need a doctor

WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE

SHE USED TO HAVE BABY WINGS!! I LIKE THE BABY WINGS!

GOOBER

I LOVE THESE MORE THAN THE HANDPUPPETS WE GOT!! (No offense to Handy, Randy, or pig) I wish we could of gotten Handy Randy and Pig as well as these guys!!

believe it or not these are all Ricky concept arts (other than the one that kinda looks like Pearl??)

RAY FULL BODY REVEAL

Ok so this is an odd theory but

some of these unused guys look awfully familar to me.

[indigitalembrace]

[ooc: since this is a long message I’m not encoding it, but it is encrypted in-universe]

spooky. sup.

i got somthin big cookin. but for this to work i need intel.

first, i need a favour. i cant do much thanks to the watchdog. i so much as twitch my fingers on the keyboard in the wrong place an time and this whole operation will come crashin down. so. if u can, watch the shrimp for me when they are online doin mundane stuff. because if they do stuff like use social media, play games that require a registered account, use their email and especially if they get online deliveries to their house, those all will have info that will help me figure out where they live irl.

second: tell me everything u know about how pinkie can access an affect the real world. whats the limitations. how much warning would i get. what r the access points. do devices need power for it to be able ta use em? how functional do they have to be? would pinkie be able to exit a screen the size of a pager or somthin? does it need an internet connection to jump pcs or can it do that without it?

and can it be hurt in the real world? can it be hurt by destroying its host device while its occupyin it? or is the only way to kill it digitally? did you ever have a program specifically set up for that (if so, y u no gimmie dat earlier!? rude!). how long would it take?

also any info u have picked up on shrimp or their livin space that might be useful for an irl confrontation would be suuuuuper handy as well.

give me all ya got on all these things. if its a lot, just send me a zip file or somthin lol.

i do have some unfortunate news. i think we gotta change our 'meeting site' soonish. ill send ya some prospectives later. i have a feelin that it might get compromised.

i mayyyyyy have poked the shrimp with a stick. don’t worry, they wont be able to tell the actual pc I used. I am da disquise master. it is me. also i lied. ive scrounged up some burner laptops anyway. my friends r awesome (dont worry they aint involved they just knew I needed the laptops for reasons and they are used to me Enacting Shenanigans).

oh. And one last thing. when I get there, hightail off that pc asap. im gonna signal u and give you a path to a safe pc. Do Not Hesitate. cuz trust me no matter how I decide ta play this u will *not* wanna be on that computer when im doin my thing. and ill almost certainly be disabling the wi-fi in the process.

id like u ta not be double dead. low key fond of ya spookster.

Goblin out

[ooc: If there is a lot of info to give and you don’t want to post it all here, message me and we can work something out like a google doc or something. Or maybe there’s not much for Sonny to say. I dunno, I’m not driving this crazy train lol]

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[emo-gremlin]

Hey, you're cool! *hands you more MFN as memes/vines*

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Lenard: what's cooler than being cool?

Gordon: financial stability

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Lilianna: an octopus is just a wet spider

Ricky: WHAT HAVE YOU DONE

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Lenard: SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME THE WORLD WAS GONNA-

George: end on December 21, 2012. I bought all this fucking pasta as a way to celebrate the end of the world and now I'm $10,000 in debt, my taxi got towed and I have wet pasta everywhere in my house

Lenard: ...I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed

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Ricky: swear words are illegal now, say one and you'll be fined

Handy: heck

Ricky: you're on thin fucking ice

Ricky: oh no

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Lenard: what if mayonnaise came in cans?

Lilianna: that would suck because you can't microwave metal...

Noir: *walking by drinking coffee* good morning to everyone except you people

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Noir: anyone wanna get into an argument with me?

Ricky: ok cream cheese isn't that good

Noir: I was kidding but you know what fuck you for real

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Unfriendly Lenard: I hate being high, why I hear footsteps?

Craig: are you walking?

Unfriendly Lenard: oh shit

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Junebug: vanilla soy latte is just 3 bean soup

Gordon: why must you do this at 5am

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George: a haiku for the bus drive who deliberately cut me off

George: *clears throat*

George: I swear to God bruh, let me catch you in the streets, bruh I swear to God

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Unfriendly Lilianna: I find the fact I will never experience a sword fight in my entire life terribly tragic

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Lenard: sorry, liberals, there's only 0 genders

Junebug: there's one gender ad we have to share

Craig: Gordon said its my turn on the gender

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Norman: I wanna jump off a building and not die. Just relieve stress by slamming into the sidewalk and then get up and go get a slurpee or something

Ricky: Norman are you ok

Norman: no ❤️

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Norman: *screams into jar* everything is fine :)

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Gordon: I saw your last report card

Noir: *not even looking up from his phone* congrats you can see

Gordon: oh so you wanna be smart?

Noir: that's why I go to school

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Gordon: hey Junebug how are you today?

Junebug: I swallowed a golf ball!

Gordon: uh- are you ok?

Junebug: I can't poop! :D

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Ricky: hey Lillianna

Lillianna: can you get in the oven and clean it?

Ricky: bye Lillianna

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Junebug: if it weren't illegal I would eat cereal for every meal of the day

Gordon: I have some wonderful news for you

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Gordon: Noir asked everyone at dinner what color Norman's new shirt was. After we all said grey, he turned to him and said, "Now tell them what color you think it is." And Norman just quietly replied, "Dark white."

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Lilianna: Lasagna is just spaghetti flavored cake

Fritz: I will pay you money to never speak again

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George: fellas is it gay to fall in love with another man and spend your life with him

Gordon: that is the literal definition of gay

George: :0

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Gordon: *texting the puppets* At airport! Bye guys! Love ya to the moon and back, you're the best! Bust a nut!

Noir: I'm not sure Gordon knows what that means

Tax: I Physically cannot breathe

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Lilianna: God released me into the wild and now he's hunting me for sport

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Fritz: where can I order a pretty face

George: from your mirror

Tax: WHEN DID EVERYONE IN THIS HELL STUDIO BECOME SMOOTH AF

Lenard: 2023: the year the Neighborhood learned how to flirt

Norman: oh my

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Noir: 1 universe, 9 planets, 7 seas, 7 continents, 809 islands, 204 countries, and I had the unfortunate luck of meeting you

Tax: THERE ARE 8 PLANETS YOU UNCULTURED SWINE

Noir: VIVA LA PLUTO FUCK YOU

Gordon: I'm pretty sure 'viva la Pluto fuck you' is the best sentence I've ever heard

🎬

Craig, Fritz and UF Fritz belong to: @gayfraggle

[snaxdoodlingcorner]

Mfn au my friendly starrpark cast

George the puppet taxi cab driver as Gordon o’Brian 

Jessie as Ricky 

Bull as Norman 

Colt as Lenard 

Shelly as Junebug 

Piper as Lilianna 

Brock as George 

Lola as Pearl the bird

Pam as ray (the repair man)

Buster as goblette 

Mandy as Arnold aka me

Nita,Leon,sandy as pig randy and handy

Dogs as the pups

Ghost of sally starlet as curtain call

Uf Bull as uf Norman 

Uf Colt as uf Lenard 

Uf Shelly as uf Junebug 

Uf Piper as uf Lilianna 

Uf Brock as uf George 

Unused and scrap oc brawlers as The Amalgamuppet

Uhh, is it some sort of recasting meme?-

-The creator

[the-friendliest-freak]

Mfn cast meme 

George the puppet taxi cab driver as Gordon o’Brian 

Jessie as Ricky 

Bull as Norman 

Colt as Lenard 

Shelly as Junebug 

Piper as Lilianna 

Brock as George 

Lola as Pearl the bird

Pam as ray (the repair man)

Buster as goblette 

Mandy as Arnold aka me

Nita,Leon,sandy as pig randy and handy

Dogs as the pups

Ghost of sally starlet as curtain call

Uf Bull as uf Norman 

Uf Colt as uf Lenard 

Uf Shelly as uf Junebug 

Uf Piper as uf Lilianna 

Uf Brock as uf George 

Unused and scrap oc brawlers as The Amalgamuppet

What

[paper-starz]

MERRY CHRISTMAS YA FILTHY ANIMALS

Have a collection of Christmas themed doodles!!

Merry Christmas and have a happy holidays 🎄

[normalnorman]

Hand puppets: Handy Randy and Pig model references free to use for art and anything else

[listonlouis]

are the hand puppets okay with a hand inside them? are you even supposed to put a hand inside them? is okay for a puppet to be puppeting another puppet? maybe i'm just over thinking things.

[instanthologramtraveler]

Saba Stay Right Here

Saba Stay Right Here Lyrics

Saba Stay Right Here

Saba Mick Jenkins Stay Right Here

Stay Right Here Chords Saba

Saba's verse in the song 'Everybody's Something' increased his popularity. Saba continued rapping in 2013 and began to create his second mixtape, ComfortZone. The mixtape was released on July 2014. Saba used the album as a window into his life, produced the majority of the tracks on the project. Listen to “Stay Right Here” below via 2 Dope Boyz. And while you’re at it, revisit our essay inspired by Saba’s performance at Outside Lands. CARE FOR ME is out now. SABA lyrics - 69 song lyrics sorted by album, including 'Beautiful Smile', 'Something In The Water', 'The Billy Williams Story'. Tahj Malik Chandler (born July 17, 1994), better known by his stage name Saba (stylized as SABA), is an American rapper and record producer.He grew up in the Austin neighborhood of the West Side of Chicago. He is a co-founder of the musical collective Pivot Gang with his brother Joseph Chilliams, their late cousin John Walt, and their high school friend MFn Melo. SABA 'Stay Right Here': Mm, ayy, yeah, ayy I woke up this morning feeling just like I'm a star No I don't drink but I might. SABA - Stay Right Here Lyrics AZLyrics.com.

Stay Right Here Lyrics by Saba feat Xavier Omär & Mick Jenkins.

[Intro – Saba] Mm, ayy, yeah, ayy

[Verse 1 – Saba] I woke up this morning feeling just like I’m a star No I don’t drink but I might buy the bar Like shots on me because I ain’t get shot That’s on my soul, Diana Ross I am on my pivot like I am Ross I am a force to be reckoned Like a western film, might pull up on a horse This is the part where the party is over But you and your friends know you will not go home This for my niggas who went and got fired Just ’cause they desire to grow their hair long I just said peace to the past like “so long” I don’t smoke weed yet they passing the bong Chiefing the reefer just like Cheech and Chong This for the teachers who told me that songs won’t go a long way But I’m a long way from home because of it, ayy Look at this love that I’m covered in, ayy Built from the ground up, a architect I present just like a scientist I’m in this, I give just ’cause I am blood, yeah Opposite of what they government I protect people that show me their love, yeah

[Pre-Hook/Chorus – Xavier Omär] So just stay right here Love me from the mountain to the grave right here Ain’t no way it’s ever gonna change right here, yeah

[Hook/Chorus – Saba] Look at all the love around me Look at all the love around me Look at all the love around me

[Verse 2 – Saba] I said I pivot like my name was Ross Pivot, Diana Taurasi Pivot like Moss, he all squeak I’m with a army, audience applause Ain’t been the same since Walt’s autopsy I just wish that I could call him, tell him ’bout tour Tell him how shit not the same like before Tell him how labels knocking at the door Tell him about how my face in The Source or something Call upon the Lord to come my Autumn Though I’ll never get to see the day That my daughter come, ignore the dumb Shit that come with the territory, share the story, all of ’em Even with the little twist like Oliver all of the time I told the block y’all should open your eyes I come from nothing but drugs and the crime I sung out, oh yes I made it alive Shouts to the fans and they gave me some time, yeah Look at the love that I’m covered in Kept it a hundred, I coveted This is all real, ain’t no supplement Own all my masters and publishing Head to Korea, they fuck with it

[Pre-Hook/Chorus – Xavier Omär] So just stay right here Love me from the mountain to the grave right here Ain’t no way it’s ever gonna change right here, yeah

[Hook/Chorus – Saba] Look at all the love around me Look at all the love around me Look at all the love around me

[Verse 3 – Mick Jenkins] Look at all of the love around me, astounding How niggas still found the time to hate my county Been cooking niggas that look like me We all got bounties on our heads and business is bountiful My niggas accounted for Two accountants to run my checks and balances I never bank on balance though We stay good with the handy work But if I can’t see a callous that can’t be worth a dime They say that a dollar’ll make you rich But that fake shit can’t be worth the time I got a eight to my face when I have the time Smoking these days just to pass the time Smoking sometimes just to stare in your face Or just to stare in the mirror, I’m scared of standing in place Even the slowest of paces Keeping you on the move, it behooves you All this mindless behavior we’re used to I kick it like Bruce Lee, I be like the water I’m deep in this shit I’m a young Fela Kuti whipping a hooptie, we smoked out Boys at the corner store loc’d out We stop at the corner store anyway Look at all of the love around me

[Pre-Hook/Chorus – Xavier Omär] So just stay right here Love me from the mountain to the grave right here Ain’t no way it’s ever gonna change right here, yeah

[Hook/Chorus – Saba] Look at all the love around me Look at all the love around me Look at all the love around me

SONG INFO

Released: November 9, 2018Produced By: DaedaePIVOT, Daoud & Saba

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VIEW ALL LYRICS TO SONGS BY: Mick Jenkins, Saba, Xavier Omär

Having already dropped one of the year’s best albums, Care For Me — a powerful, personal and gorgeously-produced project that centers around the death of his late cousin and collaborator, John Walt — Saba caps off his crowning year with the release of this new song, “Stay Right Here.” The quirky, upbeat track features a guest verse from fellow Chicago rapper Mick Jenkins, who recently released his own Album of the Year contender Pieces of a Man, and a smooth hook from Xavier Omär.

With its buoyant refrain of “look at all the love around me,” “Stay Right Here” feels like the spiritual extension of Saba’s Care For Me closer, “Heaven All Around Me.” It’s just as beautiful.

Listen after the jump…

Saba Stay Right Here Lyrics

For all the Saba fans out in Europe, catch him on tour early next year.

IM BRINGING THE CARE FOR ME TOUR TO EUROPE! TIX ON SALE FRIDAY AT 10AM. CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU pic.twitter.com/QpiNDfEYwQ

Saba Stay Right Here

— SABA (@sabaPIVOT) November 5, 2018

Saba Mick Jenkins Stay Right Here

Stay Right Here Chords Saba

Related:New Music: The O’My’s Feat. Saba & Peter Cottontale “Puddles”

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[lightandmatter]

I first encountered Drobo products eight or nine years ago, and was impressed enough to write a bit about them on this site, but some concerns cropped up, and after a couple years, they disappeared from my radar, and I mostly forgot about them.

But recently, Drobo has popped up again, under new ownership. I met with their reps at PhotoPlus last fall and spent some time checking out their impressive new product line. In addition to network attached storage, they have USB-attached drive arrays and blazing fast Thunderbolt-attached drive arrays… ostensibly fast enough to be used while editing video.

Are they any good? Are they going to leave you high and dry? Are there better options? Let’s see.[mfn]Drobo sent me this model for free to provide an honest review. I never accept goods in exchange for a positive review. Always take everything that you read on the internet with a grain of salt, though.[/mfn]

Ease of Use

There’s no shortage of Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices on the market, but for many people, they can be excessively complicated to set up, configure and use. The Drobo B810n is more expensive than some of the other options, but offers what few others can: simplicity along with a full list of features.

Device Setup

The hardware setup of the Drobo B810n is childishly easy. You slide a couple of hard-drives into the slots in the front (no screwdriver required!). You plug the power cord into the wall. You connect an ethernet cable from the Drobo to your network. That’s it.

To add more hard drives, you don’t even have to turn it off (ie, it’s hot-swap). You can just slide them right in to empty bays. The front panel is just held on with a ring of magnets.

Upon opening the Drobo Box, you’ll see “Drobo Quick Start Card” in large, friendly letters. Upon flipping the card over, you may be disappointed to discover that it doesn’t contain quick and simple instructions, it contains a web address to get more info. But fine: that gives them the opportunity to keep the instructions perfect and up to date for each individual model, right?

This was one of the first instruction slides that I encountered for the Drobo B810n. Note that the B810n does not connect to a computer directly, and does not connect to the network with Thunderbolt or USB.

So it did not inspire confidence when I followed the link to the guide and quickly encountered the instruction to connect the Drobo to my computer with a Thunderbolt or USB cable (next to a GIF of someone doing neither one of those things). Of course, I knew that this was a simple mistake copied over from a different product and attached the device with an ethernet cable, but I could easily understand a less technically minded person getting tripped up here; this is not a great start for a company for which customer service and ease-of-use are their raison d’être.

However, the rest of the instructions were quick and simple, and in a matter of moments the Drobo was all hooked up and turned-on and churning away at some invisible task.

I had started off by installing two 8TB hard drives, but quickly added two more to meet the capacity of the photo archive I wanted to backup, This was seamless; as I slid in each drive they were automatically recognized by the Drobo and put to to work.

Computer Setup

Once the Drobo is connected to your network, you’ll download the Drobo app (called the Drobo Dashboard) and install it on your computer. The software will automatically detect the Drobo on your network, and you click on a dashboard icon to initialize the device.

The only thing left to do is set up “shares” on the Drobo, which are essentially folders that can have separate permissions. I clicked on the “Mount” checkbox and mounted my default “Public” share to be the “P:” drive on my computer (but used E: on my Surface), and from there, the Drobo was available to me just as if it were a hard drive on my computer.

This process couldn’t have been much easier.

For Multiple Computers

I decided to get the Drobo B810n rather than the Thunderbolt version (which attaches directly to a single computer) because we work with multiple computers, and I wanted to be able to access the files on the Drobo from all of them.

Drobo Dashboard installed on my workstation and Surface Pro

To use it from multiple computers, all you have to do is install the Drobo app on each computer that’s on the network. Again, the Drobo will automatically be detected, and you’ll be able to mount the Drobo from the app as a drive on each machine.

This makes it easy to come home from a photo shoot or trip with my laptop or Surface, transfer my images directly to the Drobo, and then access them from my Workstation at my desk. Very handy and efficient.

Data Safety

Drobos are designed for data redundancy using BeyondRAID so that if any one of your drives fail, the data is still safe: you can add a replacement drive back into the Drobo and recover all of your data.

When two drives are in the Drobo, this simply means that one of the drives is a direct backup of the other (similar to RAID 1). When three or more drives are used, though, the Drobo distributes data across all of the drives, with redundancy (similar to RAID 5).

To keep things simple, this means that if you install two 8TB drives in the Drobo, you’ll get only 8TB of storage space, total, losing one of the whole drives for backup space. If you add three 8TB drives, though, you’ll get 16TB, and if you add four 8TB drives, you’ll get 24TB, etc. If your drives are different sizes, It will always be the largest drive that will be lost to data redundancy (so if you have 8, 6, 4, and 2TB drives, you’ll effectively get 12TB of storage space).

Furthermore, you can initialize “Dual Disc Redundancy” (similar to RAID 6), which will protect your computer against the unlikely event of two hard-drives failing at the same time, though at the loss of more storage space. With this option, you’ll lose your two largest drives to redundancy, but this is still a net gain over plain duplication if you’re using 5 or more hard drives in the Drobo.

More Data Details

Drive failure isn’t the only potential problem that can cause data loss. If the Drobo or its RAID controller fails, then things get tricky. Since the data is broken up into blocks and spread across multiple drives, if the Drobo crashes you can’t simply put one of those disks in another computer and read the data from it.

Recovery is possible now, though[mfn]It seems that this was not always the case. Since Drobo uses “BeyondRAID” rather than open RAID protocols, it used to be very difficult to recover data from a Drobo that had failed, and this was one of the reasons that I stopped recommending the Drobo several years ago.[/mfn]. With current firmware, you can simply pull your hard drives from your existing Drobo and put them in a second Drobo of the same model (or a newer one), and the data will all automatically be readable. If this contingency crops up, and you have DroboCare (free for two years, subscription after that), they’ll send you a “Migration Kit” that includes a second Drobo to help with this process.

Even if you don’t have DroboCare, there’s now recover software out there that will get the job done. USF Explorer, for example, will allow you to image each drive from your Drobo, mount them virtually in your computer (assuming you have the space), and then recover the data.

None of that is quick and easy, but that’s life when it comes to catastrophic hardware failure (though there’s no reason to think that it would be any more likely in a Drobo than any other NAS).

Still, I don’t expect the Drobo to be foolproof. It’s still ideal to have backups of your data in additional locations (preferably in another building or on the “cloud”, in case of fire). That said, the Drobo should protect your data from the most common data storage threats.

Failure Testing

One of the problems with testing a piece of equipment like the Drobo B810n is that it’s supposed to protect you from hard drive failure, but that only happens (unpredictably) after several years for most hard drives.

I was lucky. While I was searching through my computer graveyard for old drives to throw into this thing, I ran across a couple that had been labeled as “functional but failing”, and one of them, according to Crystal Disk, had over 50,000 hours of use on it. I slid it into an open slot on the Drobo and, after a few moments, got a green light. I transferred some extra data to the Drobo for good measure.

Everything seemed fine for about a day, but the next afternoon, I got a “drive failure” warning from the Drobo Dashboard, and the drive’s light on the Drobo turned red.

Excellent! This gave me the chance to see if any data had been lost, and how easy it would be to get back on track.

I pulled the bad drive from the Drobo, replaced it with one of a similar size, and waited. The B810n recognized it, and started the data recovery process. For about an hour, the whole Device was unavailable while the machine churned and chattered and lights blinked, and redundant data was copied over to the new drive. When it finished up and the Drobo came back online, and I checked out my files as thoroughly as I could. Everything was back to normal.

The entire process of data recovery when a drive failed was almost entirely automatic, quick, and painless, and in the end I didn’t lose anything. As a photographer, this is what I want: a device that lets me concentrate on my photography, not on computer hardware.

Photo Backup

Once your Drobo is up and running, it is essentially an always-on backup system in itself[mfn]This is not technically a backup; it’s just data redundancy, but it fulfills pretty much the same purpose. I still recommend saving your images to another location, if you can.[/mfn], so to have your photos backed up, all you have to do is store them on the Drobo.

I find that the easiest thing to do is to import my images to my workstation’s fast SSDs for initial editing, but I use Lightroom/ACR’s “Second Copy” feature on import to ALSO copy the images to the Drobo, and that’s all you really need to do.

If you don’t copy your files to the Drobo on import, you can also use backup software to copy them over to the Drobo. I’ve been using Retrospect 17 for this job, but there are other good options, too.

Extra Features

In addition to connecting to your home or office network, Drobo offers a few different apps so that you can access files from your phone or backup your phone images to the Drobo.

Additionally, there are dozens of apps that can run on the Drobo to do the sort of work that is normally done by a web-server: it can host a WordPress Website or Apache Webserver. You can run entertainment apps like Plex or Twonky to serve your music and movies to your network or the internet, or you can run “own Cloud” to use your Drobo as a giant cloud storage drive.

Two screenshots of the Plex interface, with the Plex server running on the Drobo B810n.

I installed Plex on my Drobo, and added a collection of photography-related movies from our definitive list, just to see how it would work. With the movies moved to the Drobo, the Plex server worked like a charm (no problems with transcoding), allowing me to access my movie collection from anywhere on the network, or anywhere in the world with an internet connection. Handy!

Data Transfer Speed

The Drobo B810n has dual Gigabit ethernet ports and can connect to your network with both of them at once, making its data throughput impressive. Of course, most computers only have a single wired Gigabit connection to a network, but wireless (in ideal conditions) can be faster (801.11 ac can be just shy of 7Gbps).

One Gigabit is equivalent to about 125MB/s, so that is the theoretical limit for a file transfer between a Drobo and my computer (with a 1Gbit network adapter). In practice, I get something closer to 65 – 90MB/s, depending on the size of the files.

This is plenty fast for archiving work or even for media lookup and playback, but it’s not ideal for a drive to work from directly, especially if you’re using large video files. For that, one of Drobo’s Direct Attached Storage (DAS) devices would be better; they can connect via Thunderbolt 3 (40Gbit = 5000MB) or USB-C (10Gbit), which will dramatically increase data transfer speeds[mfn]The hard drives will have read/write speeds that are much slower than that, with a theoretical maximum of 6Gbit, generally, but actual performance is slower. Drobos do support SSDs, though. PCIe 4 NVME drives can transfer at just under 5000MB/s (about 40Gbit).[/mfn].

Personally, I keep a couple of fast (PCIe 4) 1TB NVME drives in my workstation for workspace while I’m editing video and to store my images from the past few months. When I know I’m ready to archive them, I transfer them to the Drobo and other backup drives.

The Downside

I haven’t run into many “cons” to go along with all of the Drobo “pros”, but it hasn’t been entirely perfect, either. While the Drobo software is quite good, the overall experience sometimes can lack polish. I’ve already mentioned the mistakes I encountered in the setup instructions, and I’ve found similar little glitches when looking at the documentation on the Drobo site (though Drobo has quickly fixed some of them after my feedback). Furthermore, I’ve found that the Drobo does not report its drive space correctly to Windows:

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After inquiring about this to Drobo’s tech support, I understand that this is normal behavior and allows the Drobo’s actual storage space to expand or contract within that working space without requiring Windows to make adjustments. I’ll trust Drobo that this is the best option, though I’m not sure what the drawback would be of having Windows adjust the volume size on the rare occasions that drives are added or subtracted.

None of these issues are consequential, but they’re the kind of thing that I’d like to see cleaned up; they do erode confidence.

I use an older Android phone (Android 7… yes, it’s time to upgrade) and found that while the Drobo Access and DroboPix apps installed on it just fine, they were unable to connect to the Drobo. I was able to get them to work with one of my newer Android devices, but compatibility seems to be a slight concern, here. It’s also worth mentioning that the Drobo Access app has a fairly poor rating on the Google Play store for what seems to be similar reasons.

Customer Service

Drobo’s devices are intended to be used by everyone, regardless of skill level, and consequently require solid customer service. I wanted to check it out, but didn’t really have any problems with the Drobo to get help with, and didn’t think I’d have much luck just making something up.

Eventually, I picked a selection of little issues that I had encountered and submitted three support tickets one Friday morning to see how they’d be handled: one was a Windows issue, one was a Drobo App update issue (app running on the Drobo), and one was an Android Drobo App issue.

Overall, I’d say that my customer service experience was fair to middling. I got one response on Saturday, and two more on Monday. One ticket was answered with a link to a tutorial that pretty much answered my question, and the others said either that nothing was wrong or that there was nothing that could be done. I didn’t expect a whole lot out of the issues that I raised, and I didn’t get a whole lot in return. We are all currently in the middle of a Coronavirus outbreak, though, and I’m going to cut them a little slack. I don’t know what their staffing situation is like right now.

Versus Alternatives

The Drobo B810n costs around $1300 at the moment. How does that compare to the alternatives?

The Synology DS1819+ 8 Bay NAS is probably the most well-known competitor, and currently costs [asa price]B07KMKDW42[/asa]. Where the Drobo has two ethernet ports, the Synology NAS has four (upgradable to a 10Gbit ethernet card, though 10Gbit networks are still uncommon).

The Drobo has 2GB of RAM, and the Synology has 4GB (upgradable to 32GB). Both devices have a quad-core processor, but the Drobo’s is a Marvell Armada XP MV78460 1.2 GHz CPU, and the Synology’s is a 2.1GHz CPU (about twice as fast).

Like the Drobo, the Synology is capable of a variety of different data redundancy configurations, including offsite backup to a second unit.

However, Synology is not known for their friendly and responsive customer service (to put it mildly). Setup and usage will require solid knowledge of home/office networking. Not a big deal for power-users, but perhaps a bit more daunting for the technically-challenged.

Standard RAID devices like this will require an extra hard drive (a hot-spare), that sits idle in case of drive failure to get similar functionality, which will bring the cost up. The Drobo does not require an extra drive for this purpose.

Conclusion

After using the Drobo B810n for a couple of months, I’ve been very happy with the unit’s performance; it’s very practical for use on a network in a small office (of photographers) or at home. The unit is well built and feature rich, and its simplicity of use doesn’t bog you down with technical concerns. If you run into problems with it, tech support seems to be adequate or better, and it will keep your data much safer than storage on any single hard drive.

Drobos are somewhat expensive, and if you’re technically minded, you’ll probably get equally good performance (or better) from other popular NAS brands, such as the Synology mentioned above, at lower cost. Whether the Drobo’s simplicity of use is worth the extra cost will have to be up to your own personal preference.

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The Return of the Drobo: Easy Photo Backup with the B810n I first encountered Drobo products eight or nine years ago, and was impressed enough to write a bit about them on this site, but some concerns cropped up, and after a couple years, they disappeared from my radar, and I mostly forgot about them.

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