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Re: Drobo end days.

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On 2014-02-27 22:42:29 +0000, Alan Browne said:

> On 2014.02.27, 16:15 , Jolly Roger wrote:
>> On 2014-02-27, Kaltsas, Alexander G <Kaltsas> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I retired my 2nd Gen Drobo a few months ago for a Synology NAS DS1512+.
>>> The drobo 2nd Gen has always been slow, about 12 MB/s under USB and
>>> maybe a squeek over 20 MB/s on FW800. I know another guy who has a 2nd
>>> Gen Drobo his tests out almost identical, I don't think I had a lemon,
>>> I think were just that slow.
>>> 
>>> I typically was having CCC make nightly backups of all my drives to the
>>> Drobo. One clocks in at 1.2 TB, One clocks in at 1.4 TB, and one clocks
>>> in at 700GB.
>>> 
>>> I also use crashplan to sync certain directories to a freinds NAS but I
>>> like the whole disk images, easy to get back up and running.
>>> 
>>> Given how slow the drobo is I thought I would do a test restore to
>>> another machine, I'd be waiting days to get back up and running should
>>> I have a drive failure. Some good that would be. Piddled around a bit
>>> and settled on a Synology, they are well supported and have some great
>>> features for building out additional storage. I wouldn't say they for
>>> everybody, I'd probably suggest a QNAP device over a synology for most
>>> folks.
>> 
>> I find it quite amusing that a few vocal folks seem to have purchased
>> Drobos for speed when data integrity was their *primary selling point*
> 
> Nobody (myself included) claimed we bought them for speed.  But having 
> other, faster, options makes the 2nd gen Drobo look positively slow.
> 
> (Or negatively fast if you think that way).
> 
> And that, over time, may become an issue.
> 
> There is also the issue of single point of failure (as I've mentioned). 
>   Buying another Drobo to backup a Drobo soon falls out of the cost 
> effective spectrum.  (As I've mentioned).

I never said I bought it for speed. It's hard to remember, but back 
when they first launched they had a ton of marketing with Cali Lewis 
going on about how you could edit photos and videos right from the 
device and pull a drive and look you are still going. They certainly 
wern't suggesting these were the slowest devices.

As my backups have grown the viablity of a 2nd gen drobo lessened. 
Based on my testing if I ever had a failure I would be days recovering 
with the Drobo.

I've used newer Drobos with an mSATA card. They are much faster, but 
the 2nd gen left a somewhat sour taste in my mouth. I don't think they 
are bad but now there are better options on the market. At the time of 
the 1st/2nd gen drobos there was very little consumer/prosumer stuff 
that could compete. Now theres a wide variety to choose from. 

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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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