can different users sharing the drive secure their data from other users? Thanks
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Yes you can in the drobo Dash board let's you set up users and shares via Samba or the mac equivalent.
506280
Yes, this can be done by creating a folder that is available only to a single user. Those parameters are available in the admin program.
506281
Yes, you can provide drive letters to each users with their own login. For example I have Data on one with only my login and a Home directory for each user.
506282
Yes, you have all of the regular share/file security that you would on a server.
1550388
No. There is only 1 disc that you will use on all 3 computers. 3-user means that 3 people will have access to the same company file so you will be able to see and edit entries that others create depending on the allowable access you get.
1053670
No. Each is completely independent from the other when switched. Only sharing would be through the available USB ports for an external drive that can be accessed by either attached computer at any given time. Hope that answers your inquiry.
1770071
That's exactly how I'm using the drive. I do a scheduled backup of changes to specific dirs to the drive using USB.
276374
Yeah....like the other responders, speed is a bit of an issue, but I found when it's backing up AND my local dropbox folder is syncing, everything slows as CPUs are eaten up. So as long as you're only syncing one drive at a time, you should be fine. I like the convenience of not having to be hooked into the machine. It works great connected to my gateway, and I have it secured quite easily.
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Fantastic question! Unfortunately, I don't know. I haven't tried. I think that cloning a software encrypted drive should working without any issue at all since the dock doesn't mount the drive and can do a forensic duplication, it should be a slam dunk. It's drives with hardware encryption, support built into the device, that I don't know what to expect from. In that case, I suspect that it would clone the sectors but I don't expect that the data would ever be readable from the destination device. That said, I don't have first hand experience with either config. I'm 99% sure the software encryption clone would work and the data would still be accessible as long as you have access to the decryption key. I wish I had a more certain answer.
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Yes. I only use the password protection Function - it is on by default when you first plug the drive into your computer. To get encryption, you have to run the program on the drive. I never ran it and just use the password protection.
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Sure, it's based on Linux, so it can use CIFS/NFS for sharing. I'm not as familiar with the Mac side of the aisle, but I can't imagine it not working for that, too -- it's just network-attached storage...
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you can use it as many times as you would like. it just wont store their information in the unit. So just have every thing written down and it would work fine. You would have it set as guest not a person in the data.
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You should never feel safe without at least two copies of everything that's important to you. This is the best flash drive I have ever owned but as an It professional I would still not trust it to be the only copy of data I'm worried about losing. I hope this answer helps. :-)
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Not as a standard option, the connections are but drives are not, if you are willing to access the Linus O/S then here is a link to consider:http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/encrypted-filesystem
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Hello yes this NAS is network secured with group security. it's easy to configure & stable. They only last 3-5 yrs though so do your backups!
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No. If you want to encrypt files i suggest axcrypt and for a drive trucrypt. Both free.
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I haven't tried it, but I don't see why not. Make a folder completely separate from the one where the backups are being directed, and put anything you want in that folder.
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No. They don't see each other's drives. what you can do is to create an array on each of them and then in the OS use them as a single drive.
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Yes you can. You connect to your Synology box via network as usual and the USB drive will appear as folder named 'usbshare1'. Once USB drive is connected, it mounted and shared automatically by the Synology.
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The drive is on your network. It can be accessed from anyone on the network if the drive is mapped to that workstation. You can set permissions on a directory or the whole drive.