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Re: Drobo end days.

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On 2014-02-20 22:24:32 +0000, Alan Browne said:

> On 2014.02.19, 23:53 , Bread wrote:
>> On 2014-02-20 01:03:16 +0000, Alan Browne said:
>> 
>>> (The Drobo for all its glory is not esp. fast - even with FW-800.
>>> Only a hair faster than the USB 2.0 docks/drives that I have for
>>> direct copying.)
>> 
>> "not esp. fast" is an understatement.  I love my Drobo.  But it's
>> downright slow.  Copies to/from a USB*2* connected drive are much faster
>> than the Drobo at FW800.  The bottleneck is not the interface.
> 
> When copying from the Drobo to a Ram Disk, the Drobo is about 30% 
> faster than the USB 2.0 dock/drives I have;
> 
> But copying from the Ram Disk to the Drobo is about 3X slower than the 
> USB 2.0 docks I have.  (Timed on an 800 MB video file).

Now that I think about it, that sounds about right - *read* from the 
Drobo is reasonably quick.  Writing to it is what's painfully slow.  
Pulling up a big directory listing on it seems slow, too.

Nevertheless, my iPhoto repository, for example, since it no longer 
fits on my internal drive, lives on a FW800 single drive and gets 
backed up to the Drobo (via TM and crashplan).

> 
>> Similarly, I just saw a great deal on a USB3 128GB memory stick.  I have
>> a USB2 one and it's a fraction of the speed of using USB2 with a hard
>> drive, so, again, I wonder if they're working hard to speed up parts
>> which really aren't the bottleneck at all.
> 
> USB Flash drives come in a range of speeds with the very simple 
> equation:  faster = more expensive.

Still, it's just not obvious, at least to me, whether one will be 
faster than another and it's certainly not as simple as USB2 vs USB3.

I may buy that USB3 one just to compare.  Can't seem to have too many 
of these handy devices anyway.
> 
> I see one in Montreal (5 bay, no addition disks) for $390 (Craigslist).
> 
> I'm selling mine (4 bay, with two disks (1 + 2 TB) for $390 (Craigslist 
> and local computer store).
> 
> I see lower priced ones (4 bay, no HD's) on ebay as well.
> 
> These are CAD $, which at present go for ~91 cents/US $.

I've got my one Drobo and really haven't worried about a replacement.  
I just checked Craigslist and there are three within an hour drive of 
me, 2nd gen with FW800, all at around $150/ea. with no drives.

That's actually kind of tempting, just to have a backup for my main 
drobo, though, as I said, even if mine died, its main purpose is as a 
backup drive in the first place.

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Drobo end days. Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-19 17:17 -0500
  Re: Drobo end days. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-19 23:09 +0000
    Re: Drobo end days. Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-19 20:03 -0500
      Re: Drobo end days. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-20 02:12 +0000
        Re: Drobo end days. Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2014-02-19 19:54 -0800
          Re: Drobo end days. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-20 04:49 +0000
        Re: Drobo end days. Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-20 17:16 -0500
          Re: Drobo end days. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-20 23:41 +0000
            Re: Drobo end days. Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-20 20:13 -0500
          Re: Drobo end days. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-20 23:45 +0000
            Re: Drobo end days. Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-20 20:17 -0500
          Re: Drobo end days. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-20 23:48 +0000
            Re: Drobo end days. Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-20 20:15 -0500
            Re: Drobo end days. Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-21 01:39 +0000
          Re: Drobo end days. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-20 23:52 +0000
      Re: Drobo end days. Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2014-02-19 20:53 -0800
        Re: Drobo end days. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-20 16:21 +0000
        Re: Drobo end days. Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-20 17:24 -0500
          Re: Drobo end days. Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2014-02-25 10:43 -0800
        Re: Drobo end days. Kaltsas, Alexander G - 2014-02-27 13:44 -0600
          Re: Drobo end days. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-27 21:15 +0000
            Re: Drobo end days. Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-27 17:42 -0500
              Re: Drobo end days. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-27 23:32 +0000
                Re: Drobo end days. Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-27 18:49 -0500
                Re: Drobo end days. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-27 23:54 +0000
                Re: Drobo end days. Kaltsas, Alexander G <macdude22@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-28 08:13 -0600
              Re: Drobo end days. Kaltsas, Alexander G <macdude22@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-28 08:01 -0600
              Re: Drobo end days. Kaltsas, Alexander G <macdude22@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-28 08:21 -0600
                Re: Drobo end days. Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-28 16:37 -0500
          Re: Drobo end days. Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-27 21:55 +0000
            Re: Drobo end days. Kaltsas, Alexander G <macdude22@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-28 08:03 -0600
    Re: Drobo end days. Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-20 15:30 +0000
      Re: Drobo end days. Kaltsas, Alexander G <macdude22@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-28 08:16 -0600
        Re: Drobo end days. Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-28 23:25 +0000
      Re: Drobo end days. Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-28 16:44 -0500

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