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Anyone used a Drobo?
Has anyone had any experience of these Drobo things?
It all looks pretty good, really, but what is the benefit of having a Drobo over four decent 1TB e-Sata drives? (Aside from the convenience of having them all there at the same time.)
It’s a RAID, but only FW800/USB 2, so will it run faster than an e-Sata drive or not?
The company I work for have just shelled out £5K for a fairly high-end external RAID. However, we mostly work in Pro Res anyway – could a Drobo cope with HD Pro Res material? -
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DROBO is an archiving solution, not a solution for video editing storage. FW800 is slower than eSATA solutions and other SAS and miniSAS solutions. There are many RAID 0 solutions that are cheap, but RAID protection storage is a bit more expensive. FAR cheaper than it used to be, that’s for sure.
I recommend CalDigit and MaxxDigital. I have the HDOne and am using the EVO HD on another show, both are rock solid.
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The Dobro looks useful for an office environment but what got me is how each new drive automatically becomes part of your raid. With internal drives or other esata external solutions you can choose how the drives are set up. My firmtek externals allow setting 2 or 3 drives in a raid configuration and keeping one or 2 set up as jbod which is versatile if you use you computer for multi tasking or keep certain drives for certain clients on going projects. I really like the systems that like the Dobro allow bare hard drives to be slid into the unit unlike the older systems that require a caddy or sled that you screw your HDD to and then slide the caddy into the box. Sleds are only $20.00 – $30.00 but the cost adds up once you have them sitting on the shelf and the time to install the drives or de-install into the caddys adds up. I’ll want the new style that takes bare hard drives for my next set up.
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