I have 3 drobos. My main storage is the 8 bay Drobo Pro.
All are 4 Tb drives.
Sometimes the Drobo Pro does not start.
When I reboot, it usually does. But it worries me, since I have all my video work stored there.
All I can find are the very expensive NAS 8 bay.
What alternatives would I have?
I have seen a Drobo 4-Bay USB 3.0 Storage Array (3rd Generation).
I would not mind to have 2 of them.
Are those recommended?
If yes, how would I be able to get the data over?
Need to copy file by file?
If you are looking for a direct attached Drobo, your option will be
- Drobo Gen3 (USB 3.0) - 4 Bay
- Drobo 5D (USB 3.0 & Thunderbolt) - 5 Bay
As compare to your old DroboPro, you will be getting so much faster speed with the above 2.
DroboPro typically 30MB/s - whereby Drobo Gen3 and 5D can hit 100+MB/s or more.
Both models are good for Video and Photo … FCPX, Adobe PP or Lightroom should be ok But there are limits to Video Editing… which largely depends on your RAW footage bitrate.
Unfortunately … the Disk Pack in DroboPro is NOT compatible with both Drobo Gen3 or Drobo 5D. Which means you CANNOT simply move the whole Disk Pack from DroboPro into a Gen3 and 5D. This will NOT work.
Instead you will be to manually copy the Data in DroboPro out into the new Gen3 or 5D.
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If you are looking for a direct attached Drobo, your option will be
- Drobo Gen3 (USB 3.0) - 4 Bay
- Drobo 5D (USB 3.0 & Thunderbolt) - 5 Bay
As compare to your old DroboPro, you will be getting so much faster speed with the above 2.
DroboPro typically 30MB/s - whereby Drobo Gen3 and 5D can hit 100+MB/s or more.
Both models are good for Video and Photo … FCPX, Adobe PP or Lightroom should be ok But there are limits to Video Editing… which largely depends on your RAW footage bitrate.
Unfortunately … the Disk Pack in DroboPro is NOT compatible with both Drobo Gen3 or Drobo 5D. Which means you CANNOT simply move the whole Disk Pack from DroboPro into a Gen3 and 5D. This will NOT work.
Instead you will be to manually copy the Data in DroboPro out into the new Gen3 or 5D.
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thank you for your Quick reply. Actually, I have the Drobo 5D. Also the mini.
Those are for fast moving files back and forth.
The Drobo Pro is mostly for storage.
So the Drobo 3 Gen is the latest?
Since you have 5D and Mini for “staging” purpose. That’s good…
Yes… Drobo Gen3 is the latest 4Bay model and cheaper than 5D.
lots of staging… since ALL my drives are Almost full!
Anyway, thank you!
hi, depending on your scenarios, and possible pricing, it might be worth getting a couple of drobo 5D’s in the long term?
for example, for extra piece of mind, having 5 slots in each, would let you have DDR dual drive redundancy enabled, while also providing an extra slot over all for expansion - just a thought
Drobo recently launched a new 8-slot iSCSI product (B810i, the replacement for the venerable B800i) which may be of interest if you need capacity.
http://www.drobo.com/storage-products/b810i/
Cheers!
Jason
Personally… B810i is a SAN not a NAS and also not a DAS.
SAN is using iSCSI as its protocol.
IF you are on WINDOWS platform then is a seamless painless setup as Windows OS has iSCSI Initiator built-in and the Drobo Dashboard will be able to mount the iSCSI Volume via MS iSCSI Initiator.
BUT like most video and photo guys…using MAC OSX. OSX does NOT have iSCSI Initiator built-in support. So you need to purchase 3rd party iSCSI initiator… such as ATTO recommended by Drobo. Then Drobo Dashboard on OSX will be able to mount the iSCSI volume, without this iSCSI initiator OSX is not equip to mount ISCSI volume.
(while ive used i-movie or final cut in the past, i mainly do photo scanning or restoration or video editing on windows) edit: and with drobos 