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DAalseth said:

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I think the issue is that Apple is advertising these as great deals, which they are IF YOU WANT ALL OF THE SERVICES. For me, and it appears several others, it really doesn’t save us anything, and including things we don’t want or need doesn’t sweeten the pot. 

My local grocery store sometimes runs a special where you get two free bottles of Coca-Cola when you buy two bottles.   If you want that much Coca-Cola, it's a good deal.  If you only need one bottle, then it isn't.

There is nothing wrong with offering discounts to volume purchasers.  

Apple is offering a discount to those buying all of their services.  If you were intending to buy all the services, it's a good deal.  If you were only going to buy some of them, you may find that you don't save money, but you get a few extra services for free.  Who knows? you might try those extra services and like them.  If you only want one service, then buying the bundle is not for you.

pulseimages said:

Apple One bundles would be better if you could tailor them to your needs. I don’t care for Apple Arcade and 2 TB of storage is too small in the grand scheme of things. 

You can add an extra 2TB of storage to your family plan for $9.99/month.   $39.99/month gets you Apple One Premier for the whole family with 4TB of storage. 

Perhaps the company can come out with a software version of their "Beyond RAID" technology.  That would allow consumers to run it on any hardware that provides JBOD functionality (Just a Bunch Of Disks).

maciekskontakt said:

ApplePoor said:

Drivers are an issue now.

Right. Then why it needs any special drivers? You know Synology sits on Ext4 file system. It may not be the fastest, but it is pretty standard. Getting FuSE and extensions on macOS should not be a problem to access Linux standard file system if ran as local rather than NAS (you do not need drivers if you run them as NAS).

DROBOs do not need special drivers for use.  They present themselves as typical external drive.

maciekskontakt said:

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I was tryomg to recover something like that. Then I recommended to the person to move to Synology which I also use. Why people would buy something that is not very standard and it has support and recovery issues? Moving too fast without long term support is not the option to built reputation. Synology does exactly opposite so updates are still available to models from 2014. Why one would stop supporting something that is pretty much standard with standard file system that is a wonder. Drobo is unique.

RAID units and DROBOs do not eliminate the need for a regular backup strategy.