From: "Richard Bajjalieh" <bajjalieh@pyxil.com>
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Subject: RE: [AE] [OT] Alternatives to a Drobo
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 15:25:53 -0500
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Wow! Very different from my experience but good to know. 

Tim,

Did it act this way out of the box, or over time? 

I had an internal Raid 5 array that I built that acted that way which is why
I bought the Drobo. So far, so good.

Rich Bajjalieh


-----Original Message-----
From: Tsassoon [mailto:tsassoon@aol.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 12:23 PM
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Subject: Re: [AE] [OT] Alternatives to a Drobo

Phooey. I had an eSATA Drobo and it was just as ridiculously slow as all the
others, with equally annoying software. It's basically like RAID 5 with an
order of magnitude more software overhead. It slows to a crawl as you
approach the utilization ceiling, which seemed awfully close to 50%. Call it
"RAID 50", or even "RAID 500". Thunderbolt is unlikely to make any
difference, since bus speed isn't the problem. But try it if you like, but
keep the box and packing you can eBay it as "Like New!".


Tim Sassoon
SFD
Santa Monica, CA

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On Jun 6, 2012, at 5:48 AM, Benny Christensen <bennychristensen@me.com>
wrote:

> FYI - I just saw an article about a new Thunderbolt Drobo.

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