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  Drobo 5N Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-11-27 19:55 +0000
    Re: Drobo 5N unfrostedpoptart <david@therogoffs.com> - 2013-11-27 13:22 -0800
    Re: Drobo 5N Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-11-27 21:41 +0000
      Re: Drobo 5N Steve de Mena <steve@demena.com> - 2013-11-28 09:34 -0800

#52755 — Drobo 5N

Well, we'll see how the Drobo is soon enough. Amazon was having a Black
Friday deal for $180 off, so I decided what the hell and bought one. The
'N' is for network, so it will live in the Garage connected to the 24
port switch.

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#52760

On Wednesday, November 27, 2013 11:55:22 AM UTC-8, Lewis wrote:
> Well, we'll see how the Drobo is soon enough. Amazon was having a Black
> 
> Friday deal for $180 off, so I decided what the hell and bought one. The 'N' is for network, so it will live in the Garage connected to the 24 port switch.

I've had one for a few months now and love it!  Just wish they had more apps (e.g. backup/sync) that could run locally on the NAS.  A couple of tips:  add a mini SSD in the accelerator slot.  It really sped up performance and reduced video/audio hiccups when using the Drobo as a media server.  Also, one good thing about the Drobos is that you can mix and match drive sizes.  However, if you set it up for 2-drive redundancy, you could end up with a ton of unusable disk space if your drives are difference sizes.  For example, if you have 4 * 1-TB and one 3-TB, 2 TB of the last drive won't be used.  Otherwise, it would have to handle that drive and one other drive going down, which takes out 4 TB and there's not enough space on the 3 remaining drives to do that.  Therefore, it's most efficient to have all the drives be the same size.

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#52762

On 2013-11-27, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> Well, we'll see how the Drobo is soon enough. Amazon was having a Black
> Friday deal for $180 off, so I decided what the hell and bought one. The
> 'N' is for network, so it will live in the Garage connected to the 24
> port switch.

Nice purchase. The Drobo 5S I have doesn't have an SSD slot; transfer
speeds are much slower than the newer units as a result. At some point
in the future, I'll be upgrading to the 5D and attach it to a Mac to
share with Apple file sharing, because I'm not interested in relying on
SMB file sharing. 

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#52814

On 11/27/13, 1:41 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
> On 2013-11-27, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>> Well, we'll see how the Drobo is soon enough. Amazon was having a Black
>> Friday deal for $180 off, so I decided what the hell and bought one. The
>> 'N' is for network, so it will live in the Garage connected to the 24
>> port switch.
>
> Nice purchase. The Drobo 5S I have doesn't have an SSD slot; transfer
> speeds are much slower than the newer units as a result. At some point
> in the future, I'll be upgrading to the 5D and attach it to a Mac to
> share with Apple file sharing, because I'm not interested in relying on
> SMB file sharing.
>

Isn't SMB2 now the default protocol that Apples use to talk to other 
Macs with Mavericks 10.9?

Steve

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