I’ve filled my drive up to about 40% capacity, and will be doing all my speed tests here. I’m not going to benchmark this Drobo when empty, I actually did but I didn’t keep a record because it’s not relevant to real world use. I’ve seen many sites review these raids when they are completely empty. This makes the Drobo probably the best future proof system you can buy. In a few years when the 6TB drives come down in price, I can buy five new drives and one by one swap them out and Drobo will rewrite to the new drive without having to rebuilt the raid. Right now I have five 4TB drives making up a total of 20TB.
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Reason #2: You can later upgrade the size of your hard drives without having to fully reconfigure your raid. The Drobo was the only raid at the time of my purchase that offered Thunderbolt and USB 3.0. So I wanted a drive that would be compatible with old generation USB 3.0 and current gen Thunderbolt. I’m going to upgrade to an iMac eventually, I still want to get at least another year out of my MacPro and I don’t feel the iMac is there yet.
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I’m still using my MacPro from 2009 and it only uses USB 3.0, while my laptop is a MacBook Pro from 2014 that can use Thunderbolt. Reason #1: The main reason was I needed a raid that offered USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt. So I was a little hesitant going into it, but as a pretty technical guy with a lot of experience with raids, I figured I would give them a fair shot and an emotion-free review. (I think his reasons were they were only USB 3.0 for the longest time.) Trey Ratcliff gave up on them, then liked them again. I know Scott Kelby was not happy with his after having issues with his drive suddenly not mounting.
LED indicators for drive health and storage capacity.Ĭhoosing Drobo for my photography needs was scary. Two Thunderbolt 2.0 plugs that can be daisy-chained when the unit is powered off but still plugged in. On a Mac the Drobo 5D 20TB drive will actually give you 17.59TB of capacity when using the single disk redundancy. This unit is no longer available for order. The Drobo 5D is one of the latest storage raids by Drobo that features a 5 disk array with a thunderbolt and USB 3.0 connection. Drobo has gotten a sort of bad reputation over the last few years many photographers gave up on them.īut have they improved? Are they worth using again? To find out, I took the risk and purchased one to test out. So far, I’m pretty happy.
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