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by tiernano 5256 days ago
the storage for the appliance can be outside the appliance (DAS or SAN storage). the appliance can die, but you just plug in a new appliance and point at the storage, and your back... as for the drobo comment, this should be faster than a drobo... and even ignoring the appliance fail, the off site backup is key.