Teetering on the edge of total data loss

I've had a pretty rough week and a 1/2 concerning my digital life. I have about 700GB of data that I care about. This is spread across my 500GB main disk in my iMac, and the 3 external disks I used for backups and secondary storage. My time machine backup disk is a 1TB Western Digital that suddenly stopped working last week. It was under warranty so I sent it back to be repaired. I then tried to use one of my other Western Digital drives as a time machine backup volume. I let it run overnight, and woke up to find the backup failed and so did the whole disk. Now the only disk I had left for backups was already full with my DVR recordings (using eyeTV). I dont have a cable subscription, so this my main way for me to watch TV. I didn't really want to give up my recordings. So I decided to swap the 2 disks power supplies because the are the same model. When I did that, I was able to access the disk again, and tried to back my iMac again. At this point I realized it was the power supply that the problem, but it also killed the working drive I had plugged into it. Both of these Western Digital drives are also covered by warranty but I know If I send them back, no effort will be made to preserve my data. I opted to crack open the enclosures and see if the disks would work in another enclosure. To my relief they did still work.

At this point I decided, fuck Western Digital enclosures, and I ordered my Drobo that same day. I scrounged together all the compatible HDs that I had, to create enough space to copy my DVR recordings to the drobo. As soon as that was done, I moved that disk into the Drobo as well. Now with a total of 883 GB available I can have my full backup and DVR recording safely stored.

So far I am very pleased. I hope that I can rely of this equipment. I will give a better review once I have had more time with it. But the Drobo has certainly lived up to its promise of simplicity. Its really easy to setup and add more space on the fly.