FreeNAS vs Drobo

The final round up of contenders against FreeNAS. How does it all stack up? Watch to find out!

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Science & Technology

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• chrislas
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• jupiter
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• review

[ChirpingBirdy]

... continued

I think the Drobo is cool, but when they didn't add built in network support with their latest Drobo with Firewire 800 - I thought that was lame.

One question for you - does Drobo offer a Droboshare device that can connect with the Firewire 800 instead of the usb, and would that be faster on the network?

Excellent review - I think I am going to subscribe to you videos now.

/cb

[jupiterbroadcasting]

DroboShare is currently USB 2.0 only for hook up.

That said, I have streamed 3 720p videos and an SD DVD video all at once off the Drobo w/DroboShare

[SpeedHacks]

What happens when the power supply fails in ANY of the Drobo devices? You never covered what happens in that case. I think in a server solution - that is a better option. Unfortunately a good raid card is going to cost you $500 and its going to have all the Drobo features and addons with more stability, speed, flexibility and RELIABILITY. In the event of a power supply failure on a server, just replace and go...

[jaredcure]

11 megabits, or megabytes? big difference.

[TheDsmith225]

@mysticxhobo minus the cost of a hardware controller for an actual raid system. Sorry software raid isn't stable.

[StutteringMatt]

hi

[dctemper]

This seemed more like a promo than a comparison.

[OakBluff55]

@hockeyplyr67 I was thinking the same thing - but at least he told us he sells it - so you can deceide how much BS is added because he is making money...

[akirafactor]

When Drobo dies, it takes all your data with it.

[ACMEphotography]

What about the Netgear ReadyNAS? There are some more affordable versions now than when you created this vid.

[hockeyplyr67]

Slanted much? Dude, you sell Drobo's.

[greyshell77]

Cool Review. Big fan of my DroboFS. I recall the one I bought was like 800 bucks! USB 3.0.. Basically every hook up you'd want. 5 bay. Its great. You are speaking from a rubber hits the road point of view which i really like. I bought my drobo about 2 weeks after an HD blew out on me before I could back up 1 month of hard work! I lost almost all of it. At that point I had to admit to myself that I was not going to keep hooking up external HDs and hand picking (i have to do that) files over

[greyshell77]

Cool Review. Big fan of my DroboFS. I recall the one I bought was like 800 bucks! USB 3.0.. Basically every hook up you'd want. 5 bay. Its great. You are speaking from a rubber hits the road point of view which i really like. I bought my drobo about 2 weeks after an HD blew out on me before I could back up 1 month of hard work! I lost almost all of it. At that point I had to admit to myself that I was not going to keep hooking up external HDs and hand picking (i have to do that) files over .

[camerinhahn]

Also with the slow write speeds, high start up cost (BTW if you add up the numbers that you kept changing it is between 700-900 to get equivalent storage). I payed $120 and grab a computer that one of the local business was going to toss. (900 mhz dell with 2 sata ports) set it up on that. it has been running ever since with no problems and i max out my switch speed (as i operate on garbage i only have 100Mb/s switch) every time i do a transfer.