Originally posted by Wheatfield I've been using a Drobo for about a year and a half now. Other than the USB connection being somewhat slow (I think they have a faster version now), it works precisely as advertised.
What didn't you like about it?
First, it is too slow. With my NAS I get more than 100 MByte/s throughput, which is even faster than the internal drive of my Macbook.
Secondly, I felt very nervous with the Drobo, because it offers NO security whenever it reorganizes. That means, when you add a new drive or replace a faulty one, the Drobo, as every other RAID systm needs to reaorganize the data. Good RAID systems can do that while maintaining RAID security. This important, because during this reorganization the drives are working much more, than during normal use. The Drobo has no security during this important phase. If then a single drive fails, all the data are gone.
Ben