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06-22-2012, 02:34 PM
I have had a Drobo Pro for a few years now. Started with 4x1 TB drives and have gradually shifted up to 4x2TB dives. It's always been reliable but is not very fast; seems to stutter when trying to read video straight from it. I edit from other disks and just use it as storage.
06-22-2012, 02:45 PM
only have had one experience with a drobo. client brought it as one of the backup drives. figured he could use his leftover internals as just the company backup. it wouldn't mount, i told him to return it and get me a g raid...
06-22-2012, 04:32 PM
Their customer support is terrible. They tend to kick early adaptors in the rear.
06-23-2012, 12:24 PM
I've never used a Drobo but instead have been using this NAS solution as an archive backup at home for about 3 years without issue:
http://lime-technology.com/
I know the point of this thread was to introduce faster than ethernet technology but given Drobos reliability reputation I thought I'd pass this on as an alternative use for anyone who has a stack of smaller, older, slower drives waiting to be otherwise recycled. It has allowed me to make use of most of my outdated drives. At least now they have will be working until the day they die a natural death. The other benefit is you can build one of these from unused old PC parts which is what i did.
You can mix and match drive sizes as long as there is no drive in the array larger than your parity drive. They can be the same size though and you can always replace your parity drive when desired.
I'm get around 25MB/s read, 20MB write speeds over a gigabit network to the Unraid server. Slow as hell but I'm not using a cache drive which would improve speed by about this much according to the developer whom I am in no way affilliated:
"Without a cache drive: unRAID 4.5.3 - average 20-30 MB/s, peak reported 40 MB/s*
With a cache drive: unRAID 4.5.3 - average 50-60 MB/s, peak reported 101 MB/s*
So generally speaking, a server with a cache drive has write speeds 2-3x faster than the same server without a cache drive."
Reusing old tech has been a reoccurring theme for me lately (post is 2nd from the top):
http://www.coreyrobson.com/
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