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Re: Drobo end days.

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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*
to begin with, and they never claimed their older models were
particularly fast.

> I have used some of the newer drobos at work and they are faster, 
> especially with an MSATA ssd

They are *quite* fast, and have even more ease-of-use and data integrity
features as previous models.

> but for what I spent on that 2nd gen and how awesome they touted the
> damn thing (edit live video and photos right off this device!) Drobo
> as a company has kind of left a sour taste in my moutn.

Maybe that sour taste is just coming from your sour puss. I read one or
two reviews and it was crystal clear to me that the 2nd Gen Drobo wasn't
a speed demon when I purchased mine just after they were released. But
then speed wasn't my primary objective - I wanted the ease of use and
data integrity features more than that. If speed was that important to
you, reading one or two reviews should have been enough to convince you
to purchase something else. 

> They are dead simple for the layman but for anyone with a modicum of 
> computer skill I'd go with a different storage solution like a QNAP.

...as if skill has anything to do with whether one might appreciate
Drobo's features. You're just being silly and bitter. 

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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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