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New Drobo Mini and Drobo 5D - Thunderbolt Storage Arrays

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Meet Drobo's newest products;


Drobo 5D Introduction (Video);
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BdK6ovqFio&feature=player_embedded#!

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Drobo 5D
http://www.drobo.com/products/professionals/drobo-5d/index.php

More Drobo Mini prototypes imgaes;
http://www.engadget.com/photos/drobo-mini-prototypes-hands-on/#5107557

Drobo Mini
http://www.drobo.com/products/professionals/drobo-mini/index.php

To learn more, Checkout thier special live event, Hosted by Erik Pounds, Director, Product Management at Drobo.

Monday, June 25, 2012, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PST
http://info.drobo.com/thunderbolt/preview1

http://info.drobo.com/thunderbolt/preview1
Monday, June 25, 2012, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PST
 
Love the drobo concept. Wish they had a better rep for reliability, I'd be all over this.
 
Haha. The introduction video is almost completely the same concept as the Apple commercials and product videos.
I like drobo, maybe with my next MacBook...
 
The Drobo 5D & mini sounds promising. But I will wait for trusted reviews.
 
Even Jarred was saying how unreliable they are...they are probably great as a backup backup backup...something that you actually won't use as a main storage machine...

I bought a few of them thinking that it was just the unit...the speed would change...but sadly not.

FW800 speeds feel like USB 2 or just slightly more but nothing like I would get from a G-Raid or other brands...

Guess the upside is the ability to put any drive you want in but as far as execution goes...you'll probably see a speed difference between say a Promise Raid and Drobo knowing their rep with speed
 
These are the first products drobo has brought to the table that really interest me. Based on past performance and reliability (in my own experience) with drobo, I'm not going to race out and buy them. I applaud them for including both Thunderbolt and USB3 on the same device! I'll let others be the guinea pigs for this one, but if initial use reports fare well, I'm definitely interested.
 
Ive had a drobo for some time and its worked great and has been reliable. Its been running for something like two years only turning it off during my vacations or office shut downs. I use it as my big ass scratch disk! Works great for XDCAM.
 
I have had a Drobo Pro for a few years now. Started with 4x1 TB drives and have gradually shifted up to 4x2TB dives. It's always been reliable but is not very fast; seems to stutter when trying to read video straight from it. I edit from other disks and just use it as storage.
 
only have had one experience with a drobo. client brought it as one of the backup drives. figured he could use his leftover internals as just the company backup. it wouldn't mount, i told him to return it and get me a g raid...
 
I've never used a Drobo but instead have been using this NAS solution as an archive backup at home for about 3 years without issue:

http://lime-technology.com/

I know the point of this thread was to introduce faster than ethernet technology but given Drobos reliability reputation I thought I'd pass this on as an alternative use for anyone who has a stack of smaller, older, slower drives waiting to be otherwise recycled. It has allowed me to make use of most of my outdated drives. At least now they have will be working until the day they die a natural death. The other benefit is you can build one of these from unused old PC parts which is what i did.

You can mix and match drive sizes as long as there is no drive in the array larger than your parity drive. They can be the same size though and you can always replace your parity drive when desired.

I'm get around 25MB/s read, 20MB write speeds over a gigabit network to the Unraid server. Slow as hell but I'm not using a cache drive which would improve speed by about this much according to the developer whom I am in no way affilliated:

"Without a cache drive: unRAID 4.5.3 - average 20-30 MB/s, peak reported 40 MB/s*
With a cache drive: unRAID 4.5.3 - average 50-60 MB/s, peak reported 101 MB/s*
So generally speaking, a server with a cache drive has write speeds 2-3x faster than the same server without a cache drive."

Reusing old tech has been a reoccurring theme for me lately (post is 2nd from the top):

http://www.coreyrobson.com/
 
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