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DROBO drive for FCP
Haven’t been reading the cow for a while, so I don’t know if people have already talked abou this, but I would like to get an assessment of whether the Drobo SATA boxes are a reasonable alternative to RAIDs.
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Those boxes are for archive only…not for media storage. Too slow…because of how it works as a RAID. Rather unique…and slow.
Archive…yes. Media…no.
Shane
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I bought a Drobo to use for archiving projects and media… and ended up returning it. Copying to it was very slow, even with the FW800 interface, and there were some files that it would simply refuse to copy. I found it to be too unreliable to use for archiving.
–Phil
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We are using the Drobo as a playback drive for our on-air MPEG 2 decoder. There are a other few Drobos at our station employed as backup storage for our playback server, and to archive active projects. We love our Drobos, but I would not use them for editing.
SB
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