Replace Drobo 5D?

[Ifti]

I currently have a Drobo 5D.
At the moment it holds 3 WD Red 3TB drives. This leaves me with 2 free bays for expansion.

The Drobo is primarily used for video editing. All of my projects for FCPX reside on it, and I work straight off of it via ThunderBolt.

To be honest the more I use it the more I feel I could replace it with a faster drive more suited to my uses?

I would prefer to stick with RAID5 so I have a single disk redundancy just in case.

For my uses, would I be better off with a Pegasus or a Lacie?

 

[matreya]

For my uses, would I be better off with a Pegasus or a Lacie?

Bear in mind that the Lacie 2/5big units only give you an option to use OS X software RAID, so you only have a choice of RAID 0, 1 or 10 (which is a bit fiddly to set up & would leave you with a spare drive out of the 5 in the 5big (since RAID 10 would need an even number of drives (4 minimum) )..

I would think the Pegasus would do a better job....

Alternatively, you could look at something like this also:

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Areca/ARC5026

 

[Ifti]

Bear in mind that the Lacie 2/5big units only give you an option to use OS X software RAID, so you only have a choice of RAID 0, 1 or 10 (which is a bit fiddly to set up & would leave you with a spare drive out of the 5 in the 5big (since RAID 10 would need an even number of drives (4 minimum) )..

I would think the Pegasus would do a better job....

Alternatively, you could look at something like this also:

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Areca/ARC5026

Looking at the ThunderBolt 2 Lacie 5Big drive, which now do hardware RAID.
The speeds seem to blow the Drobo 5D out of the water!