Yeah, I think that for 90% of all people USB 2.0 will work fine on Drobo. All we do is put our bittorrent movies *COUGH* i mean store bought DVD's on it and they all stream fine in 720p.
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Yeah, I think that for 90% of all people USB 2.0 will work fine on Drobo. All we do is put our bittorrent movies *COUGH* i mean store bought DVD's on it and they all stream fine in 720p.
Would like some feedback. And I may be asking some "dumb" questions, so... Forgive me! 
In a Drobo environment; let's say the Drobo FS... If I have a a 4x1.5TB setup. Can I assign one of the disks to be for iTunes/iPhoto libraries and other video files? Can I assign another disk for the TM backups? Or it it viewed as a 6TB disk minus the overhead and backup partition?
If I can "partition", will the iTunes/iPhoto libraries be placed into the TM backups? And will the TM backups be spread across the drives?
Not a lot of info out there on this. Everyone says it works, which I'm sure it does. But I'd like to put all my shared files on this as well as have it do my TM work.
In a Drobo environment; let's say the Drobo FS... If I have a a 4x1.5TB setup. Can I assign one of the disks to be for iTunes/iPhoto libraries and other video files? Can I assign another disk for the TM backups? Or it it viewed as a 6TB disk minus the overhead and backup partition?
If I can "partition", will the iTunes/iPhoto libraries be placed into the TM backups? And will the TM backups be spread across the drives?
Not a lot of info out there on this. Everyone says it works, which I'm sure it does. But I'd like to put all my shared files on this as well as have it do my TM work.
Would like some feedback. And I may be asking some "dumb" questions, so... Forgive me!
In a Drobo environment; let's say the Drobo FS... If I have a a 4x1.5TB setup. Can I assign one of the disks to be for iTunes/iPhoto libraries and other video files? Can I assign another disk for the TM backups? Or it it viewed as a 6TB disk minus the overhead and backup partition?
If I can "partition", will the iTunes/iPhoto libraries be placed into the TM backups? And will the TM backups be spread across the drives?
Not a lot of info out there on this. Everyone says it works, which I'm sure it does. But I'd like to put all my shared files on this as well as have it do my TM work.
Yes, I have it partitioned into two disks.
Can anyone speak to the read/write performance of the Drobo S via FW800 (iMac doesn't have eSATA port)? I'm debating retiring my ReadyNAS NV+ and switching to a direct-attached storage solution for my iTunes library.
The ReadyNAS NV+ achieves R/W speeds of approximately 20Mb/s on my gigabit network. These numbers would be higher if I enabled jumbo frames, but I found it led to issues streaming via 802.11n to my AppleTV.
The ReadyNAS NV+ achieves R/W speeds of approximately 20Mb/s on my gigabit network. These numbers would be higher if I enabled jumbo frames, but I found it led to issues streaming via 802.11n to my AppleTV.
I'm hoping this is the right discussion to hijack/jump into. I picked up a Drobo last fall and currently have four 1.5TB drives in it. It was working like a dream connected to my Mini (via FW400 to FW800 cable), but a few weeks after upgrading to an iMac quad core i7 (and switching to a standard FW800 cable) I started noticing a lot of slowness.
The only thing I use the drobo for is iTunes storage. Currently it consists of about 1.5TBs of movies, 1.3TBs of TV Shows, and 300GBs of Music/Podcasts. That puts me at about 80% capacity for my 4.0TBs of space, but I've run closer to the cap in the past (with smaller drives) and never noticed any problems.
Since I started having problems I've noticed that iTunes frequently throws me a pinwheel and locks up on general navigation. I copied the music to the internal drive and tried running iTunes from those files and things were back to normal. Reformatted the drobo, verified that it was connecting at FW800, and copied all of the data back. Things were pretty good at first, but it's been a few days and is already back to being very spotty.
In fact I had iTunes lock up and throw a pinwheel 3 times in an hour of streaming music to an AppleTV. I've had the ATV stutter on music in the past, but never because iTunes was frozen on the other end.
Drobo support is close to sending me a new unit, but I'm also wondering if anyone else has experienced anything similar.
-Ryan
The only thing I use the drobo for is iTunes storage. Currently it consists of about 1.5TBs of movies, 1.3TBs of TV Shows, and 300GBs of Music/Podcasts. That puts me at about 80% capacity for my 4.0TBs of space, but I've run closer to the cap in the past (with smaller drives) and never noticed any problems.
Since I started having problems I've noticed that iTunes frequently throws me a pinwheel and locks up on general navigation. I copied the music to the internal drive and tried running iTunes from those files and things were back to normal. Reformatted the drobo, verified that it was connecting at FW800, and copied all of the data back. Things were pretty good at first, but it's been a few days and is already back to being very spotty.
In fact I had iTunes lock up and throw a pinwheel 3 times in an hour of streaming music to an AppleTV. I've had the ATV stutter on music in the past, but never because iTunes was frozen on the other end.
Drobo support is close to sending me a new unit, but I'm also wondering if anyone else has experienced anything similar.
-Ryan