Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!rt.uk.eu.org!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Drobo end days. Date: 20 Feb 2014 23:45:54 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net hOip4chbmDpflhih9YxxQg33tXjTwqNGdrMKuY7PsGPEyGC/0I Cancel-Lock: sha1:SXV1NhvioqST9c4n56HKkCrb1Vc= X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:56778 On 2014-02-20, Alan Browne wrote: > On 2014.02.19, 21:12 , Jolly Roger wrote: >> >> The majority of the Drobo's features are geared towards data safety - >> not speed. Older models such as yours have always been known to be >> rather slow compared to plain hard drives. Newer models that include >> SSD support are blazing fast though. Anyhow, I find my DroboS plenty >> fast enough for all of my needs, and relatively worry-free in >> comparison to plain hard drives. > > It's not worry free for me for the several times cited single point of > failure issue. OTOH, using the disk docks is quick and will provide > more than ample backup - that is also rotatable - something not > practical with the Drobo. Rotatable because you have another dock (or a dock that holds two drives). You'd have the same functionality with two Drobos. What you won't have are all of the additional features of the Drobo (the convenience factors, the ability to mix and match drives of different sizes easily to create logical volumes larger than the drives themselves, and so on). And that's fine, of course. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR