$650 for that? The joke that is thunderbolt just gets funnier and funnier. Not even firewire had this kind of early adopter penalty...
What's with the whining? These prices seem more or less comparable to Drobos older, non-TB products.
$650 for that? The joke that is thunderbolt just gets funnier and funnier. Not even firewire had this kind of early adopter penalty...
I don't think some people here understand that this isn't aimed at people who want to store and or backup photos of their cats. This is for people who need massive storage and need it quickly.
Intel has botched the Thunderbolt launch so BADLY, there is only so much can do.
The real joke is failing to grasp that brand-new technology costs a lot and that the price drops over time. The other joke is ignorantly being dismissive of it based on the initial high price, despite the fact that Dell is about to bring supporting devices to market, and pretending that everything won't change after that.
I don't think some people here understand that this isn't aimed at people who want to store and or backup photos of their cats. This is for people who need massive storage and need it quickly.
To be fair there has never been a cheap Drobo.
$599 (not including the price of TB cable) for a Drobo Mini (no drives)
vs
$350 for a NAS that runs off 4x 2.5" 9.5mm-height HDD/SDD just like the above (no drives)
http://ncix.com/products/?sku=59754
Drobo needs to drop their pricing by at least $200 before I'd consider getting one of these.
It remains to be seen what the performance of these new Drobo's is like, but it should be a significant enough difference that you're talking about a completely different product segment.
For the prices Drobo intends to charge, relative to their potential performance, they are a difficult value proposition.It remains to be seen what the performance of these new Drobo's is like, but it should be a significant enough difference that you're talking about a completely different product segment.
If initial demand was great there wouldn't be a need for such an obscene price. I get it...Thunderbolt is new technology, but in this day and age, licensing aside it costs pennies to produce the components used in these products.
Thunderbolt will continue to be a failure until they get real on pricing. It's simply too expensive for even a pro user to consider over the alternatives.
Anyone looking for a NAS should first look at Synology instead of Drobo. Light years ahead.
Cheaper than Seagate and includes a TB cable.I feel like I'm the only one that knows about the ~$260 external thunderbolt drive. Perhaps because there wasn't a MacRumors article about it. Look it up, it's called GoFlex. Works great. Pricier than other drives, but not majorly so. The drive itself was cheap, it was the adapter and cable that cost, but I expect those to last. I think it was a pretty good deal.
$599 (not including the price of TB cable) for a Drobo Mini (no drives)
vs
$350 for a NAS that runs off 4x 2.5" 9.5mm-height HDD/SDD just like the above (no drives)
http://ncix.com/products/?sku=59754
Drobo needs to drop their pricing by at least $200 before I'd consider getting one of these.
I feel like I'm the only one that knows about the ~$260 external thunderbolt drive. Perhaps because there wasn't a MacRumors article about it. Look it up, it's called GoFlex. Works great. Pricier than other drives, but not majorly so. The drive itself was cheap, it was the adapter and cable that cost, but I expect those to last. I think it was a pretty good deal.