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Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs

From	Wes Groleau <Usenet@Grolea.us>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs
Date	2013-12-23 20:55 -0500
Organization	Ain’t No Organization Here!
Message-ID	<l9aphl$qq3$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 12-23-2013 12:23, Sandman wrote:
> In article <slrnlbgkdo.1vok.g.kreme@amelia.local>, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>
>>> What performance do you get out of it? R/W speeds? What disks do you use in
>>> it?
>>
>>   I have 4TB drives in it and it sits off my main switch. I get, at times,
>>   ~40MB/s writing to it. I have not read much from it because I'm still
>>   filling it up. I am also reading from one network mounted volume while
>>   writing to the Drobo.
>>
>>   Also, this is from a machine that is in use for other things at the same
>>   time and I haven't taken any efforts to maximize my throughput. It's as
>>   fast as writing to any other networked drives on my LAN (which, again,
>>   is not optimized).
>
> Yeah, that's pretty slow, comparable to about USB2 speed. I need something
> substantially faster than that. Granted, putting SSD in it should increase
> performance as well, but how much of pentaly does the drobo impose on the
> speed of the drives?

I recently mentioned elsewhere that rsync reported a transfer rate of 
1.36 GB/sec. over a USB 2.

And again, the speed of the drive is only relevant if it is faster than 
the interface.

-- 
Wes Groleau

    From the cowardice that shrinks from new truth,
    From the laziness that is content with half-truths,
    From the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth,
    O God of Truth, deliver us.
                 --Leslie Dixon Weatherhead
                 --Rabbi Mordechai M. Kaplan
                 --ancient prayer
                 --unknown
                 --(no attempt at attribution)
(a thousand thanks to someone who can tell me who
  really wrote it AND persuade me they're not making it up!)

Thread

Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-12-16 15:53 +0000
  Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Ned Mantei <ned.mantei@biol.ethz.ch> - 2013-12-16 17:50 +0100
  Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2013-12-19 17:55 +0000
    Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-12-20 07:12 +0000
      Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-12-19 23:36 -0800
        Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-12-20 09:24 +0000
          Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs android <here@there.was> - 2013-12-20 10:38 +0100
            Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-12-20 09:47 +0000
              Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs android <here@there.was> - 2013-12-20 10:58 +0100
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-12-20 12:24 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs android <here@there.was> - 2013-12-20 13:49 +0100
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-12-20 12:58 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2013-12-20 10:04 -0800
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Wes Groleau <Usenet@Grolea.us> - 2013-12-20 21:49 -0500
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-12-21 13:11 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2013-12-21 08:45 -0800
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2013-12-21 09:25 -0800
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-12-22 08:42 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-12-22 08:40 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-12-21 13:10 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs PhillipJones <pjonescet@comcast.net> - 2013-12-21 19:58 -0500
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-21 23:13 -0500
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-12-22 08:44 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2013-12-22 14:33 -0800
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-12-20 20:23 -0800
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-12-21 14:44 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-12-22 00:19 -0800
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs android <here@there.was> - 2013-12-22 10:07 +0100
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-12-22 09:12 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs android <here@there.was> - 2013-12-22 10:28 +0100
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-12-22 12:07 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-12-22 08:11 -0800
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-12-22 16:50 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2013-12-22 14:42 -0800
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-12-22 23:18 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-12-22 15:38 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs android <here@there.was> - 2013-12-22 16:44 +0100
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-12-22 23:28 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs android <here@there.was> - 2013-12-23 16:59 +0100
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-12-22 16:48 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-12-22 19:59 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-12-22 23:29 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-12-23 11:04 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-12-23 15:07 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-12-23 17:23 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-12-23 18:44 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-12-23 18:58 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-23 16:11 -0500
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-12-26 13:19 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-12-26 22:35 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Wes Groleau <Usenet@Grolea.us> - 2013-12-23 20:55 -0500
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Wes Groleau <Usenet@Grolea.us> - 2013-12-23 20:59 -0500
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-12-26 13:27 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2013-12-22 14:38 -0800
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-12-22 23:17 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2013-12-22 15:46 -0800
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-12-23 11:03 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2013-12-23 13:19 -0800
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-12-26 13:26 +0000
                Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-12-26 12:17 -0800
      Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-12-20 09:37 -0700
        Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-12-21 13:10 +0000
      Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Wes Groleau <Usenet@Grolea.us> - 2013-12-20 21:47 -0500
        Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-12-21 14:43 +0000
          Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Wes Groleau <Usenet@Grolea.us> - 2013-12-21 11:54 -0500
            Re: Photos in iPhoto shared between Macs Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2013-12-22 08:43 +0000

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