[Odette Scott]

One of the things the Drobo technician had me do was remove the disk in the top bay, thus forcing Drobo to reorganize the data on the disks. It didn’t speed them up at all but I kept working for a few days until I noticed that the Drobo was 75% full. Then I followed the technician’s directions to replace the drive. That’s when speeds plummeted. Now the Drobo is 50% full. I’m waiting to hear back from the technician. For the record, Drobo support has not been bad: they have stuck with the problem and responded promptly. But they haven’t solved the issue and still maintain that Drobo is fit for video editing when it’s obvious that it is not.

I bought a G-RAID today. It wasn’t my first choice but I needed something ASAP. I’m copying my capture scratch folder onto it now. I’ll keep my original AVCHD files on the Drobo but I’m worried that it won’t be able to keep up with logging and transferring and I don’t want to move my AVCHD files to the G-RAID. So fingers crossed it will work to pull the original files off the Drobo to tranfer them in log and tranfer and store the Pro Res files on the G-Raid. I’ll try to backup the Pro Res files onto the Drobo as best I can, thus only using it for what it is made for- storage.

Does anyone know if the eSATA ExpressCard/34 adapters work? I’m editing on a 17″ MacBook Pro and I’d like to get the fastest speeds I can. But for $40 (by Sonnet) it is kind of pricy and the Sonnet FW400 ExpressCard/34 adapter I used to use was always popping out and was a real hazard and pain.

Thanks for your brain power!