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Saying the Drobo is slow is like saying dry ice is cold or that the Buckeyes are just another football team. Running our HD Tach benchmark test on the Drobo was like waiting for water to boil, only to find that the burner wasn’t even on to begin with.
The Drobo is Slow. Don’t expect amazing throughput with this machine. With the virtualization layers and multiple writes to the different drives, it takes some time. The real annoyance here is that a two-hour movie will usually hang a couple times if writes are happening in the background.
Slow? Yes, though it isn’t too noticeable if you’re using Time Machine. After all, Drobo is a back up system; it’s for system storage, perfect for home use, small office use, not corporate file [COLOR=#000080 ! important][COLOR=#000080 ! important]servers[/COLOR][/COLOR].
The specs say maximum sustained transfer rates are a mere 20MBs per second; not speedy. Hard drives need to be SATA I or II, the kind that come with Macs these days. Four drives use barely 40 watts of power under use.
ALL of those reviews are referring to the 1st generation USB 2.0 version of Drobo.
They recently released 2nd generation which has Firewire 800, which screams.
One caveat from reviews of Drobo2 that i have read is that Windows Vista Firewire 800 drivers suck really hardcore so getting this for a Windows machine does have mixed results. Works awesome for Mac's though.
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