Drobo Pro Check it out

[JanPawel3WersjaBeta]

You have lots of porn...

[TriBeCaHigh]

what's awesome in your video is that you could see which way the drives go in. Yep, and I use Br, Id, Ai - just new to drives! THANKS

[janX9]

1:44 The Drobo does Not use half the space with Data Redundancy, not even with Dual redundancy turned on.

All 8 bays with 2TB drives (one drive can fail):

Available for data-12.48TB

Used for protection-2.06TB

With Dual redundancy (so 2 drives can fail simultaneously):

Available for data-10.89TB

Used for protection-3.65TB

There is a Capacity Calculator on the Drobo website, so you can put in the amount of every sized hard drive, and it will tell you how much space will be used for protection.

[janX9]

@janX9 I have no idea how that works, but that's how it works. Just amazing!!! I`m so glad I found the drobo calculator :)

This was the selling point for me! Sure the Drobo has a hefty price tag, but with how many HDD's I`ll free up for dual redundancy it`s worth it, and if it gets full I can go down to single disc protection and I have another 1.59 TB of space to work with until I get a bigger harddrive. 3TB WB BABY!

Please thumbs up my last comment so people know this nifty fact :)

[rayray5340]

Hey great video. i have seen tons of videos and have read alot of forums about the Drobo. My recent HDD failure has forced me to look at purchasing one of these Drobos. I have not yet gotten clarity on the setup. I own a airport extreme and would like to plung into it and use the space as a storage for all my computers. Can this be done and how?

[Armornone]

WTF make it a robot and not an network attached storage device? Can someone explain this to me? If you want a robot, talk to skynet.

[ineedtostopsoon]

can you edit video off the drobo?

[MilanM85]

anyone want's Qnap TS 639 pro with 6x 1.5 tb WD ?? might will swap out for drobo pro...or for sell... 5 months old ( €1200 was 1600 ) or also have got TS 509 with 5x 1.5GB WD,,, both have upgraded Ram memory

[jessetabak]

Did you really connect the drobo-pro to the ethernet port on your Airport Extreme?

Because according to the drobo site, this doesn't work, it should be directly connected to your computer, when using iScsi.

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@jessetabak

I had just gotten the drobo and I maybe did not have my it right. Yes the dorbo-pro is connected to one of my macs and then to the mac to the airport. I have another mac pro plugged in to the airport. The thing is so fast we can have two video eiders working on two different HD projects off the drobo and not see any slowing of your editing and both computers can get to all the files on the drobo

[deaddrobo]

I prefer to chew on 1.5 TB Seagates much more than 1TB snacks. I have a big tummy.

-- DeadDrobo

[The64BitGeek]

I typed wrong, it should be 80 MB (megabyte) / second.

[The64BitGeek]

I was reading a test on another website and they got up to about 80 GB / s when they used iSCSI

[WatchingInBend]

Thanks for the info I have not tested it yet.

[shelant]

Did you connect it to AEBS directly or you did it through the ethernet switch?

[truthseeker308]

What throughput specifically are you getting from/to the drobo pro?

[Powermore]

ethernet in to my mac and is shared through my network

[truthseeker308]

I understand you used ethernet, but what speed did you get? 70MB/s? 10MB/s?

[truthseeker308]

Anyone, anyone? Bueller?

[madhuinc]

Exactly the video I was looking for. Thanks.