I have a DroboPro (16TB populated) connected to a HP Server via iSCSI and tried to put our email database onto it. As soon as I did it, the DroboPro’s performance took a massive hit and the access light was constantly flickering away. I eventually had to put the mail database back onto the internal RAID-5 drives in the Server.
Recently, I have just moved a working uTorrent folder on to the Drobo and notice that there is a large performance hit there again.
Would I be right in assuming that the Drobo system isn’t very good for reading and writing of small packets of data?
Not exactly! Although the droboPro w/ a single 1 Gigabit iSCSI LAN is actually slower than a NAS, the block-level iSCSI makes up the difference assuming the droboPro is being deployed as a backup/archive device instead of running email, especailly Exchange 2003/2007 right on the BeyondRAID. To ans ur question, the ans is still Yes. For file-level read/write, the droboPro is not the best choice. U r better off running ur DAS w/RAID-5/6 or 10 or JBOD config.[hr]
Not exactly! Although the droboPro w/ a single 1 Gigabit iSCSI LAN is actually slower than a NAS, the block-level iSCSI makes up the difference assuming the droboPro is being deployed as a backup/archive device instead of running email, especailly Exchange 2003/2007 right on the BeyondRAID. To ans ur question, the ans is still Yes. For file-level read/write, the droboPro is not the best choice. U r better off running ur DAS w/RAID-5/6 or 10 or JBOD config.
Thanks for the reply. Why isn’t the DroboPro the best choice for this though? I’m not worried about advantages of different types of RAID, I’m just curious as to why the DroboPro cannot handle this kind of task effectively.