¶ Another Unhappy Drobo User
Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 7:36pm
Fortunately, I do have a backup of the critical things on my Drobo. Unfortunately, I don't think I can trust this device any longer. I'll probably continue to use it for non-critical things - perhaps on my media centre Mac mini as an rsync cache of my iTunes library - but it's hard to have any confidence in the device now. For now, I'm going to move the unit to my Mac Mini and let it thrash away for as long as it wants to see if it will eventually recover itself once more.
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I'm not writing this primarily to embarrass Data Robotics, Inc. People need to know that their documentation contains a critical data-destroying error.
Wow, this is bad.
¶ New Firewire Drobo Still Too Slow
Friday, August 29, 2008, 6:51am
Overall I have to say I am extremely disappointed with the speed of the 2nd Gen Drobo. I was expecting it to be much faster than it actually was.
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Doesn't look like the 2nd gen Drobo got any faster than the 1st gen one.
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Thats really disappointing it's so slow, even with firewire.
I'd be prepared to put up with 50MB/sec throughput, even if it is about 50% native speed. But 15 - 20 MB/sec is just crap. especially considering the possible capacity of the thing with 5*1.2TB drives.
