{"id":5607,"date":"2012-08-07T20:37:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T01:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=5607"},"modified":"2015-04-25T19:35:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T23:35:21","slug":"drobo-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/drobo-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Drobo Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across a link to Lloyd Chambers&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/macperformanceguide.com\/Reviews-Drobo.html\">epic Drobo review<\/a> from 2009:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/macperformanceguide.com\/Reviews-Drobo.html\"><p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/diglloydtools.com\/\">DiskTester<\/a> results are shown below. These are the <em>slowest results with Firewire 800 I&rsquo;ve ever seen<\/em>, by at least a factor of two, and about 1\/3 the speed achievable with a <a href=\"http:\/\/macperformanceguide.com\/Reviews-OWC_OnTheGo.html\">laptop hard drive in an OWC On-The-Go<\/a> case. <\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p>I didn&rsquo;t understand the fascination when Drobo first came out and still don&rsquo;t really see the appeal. It&rsquo;s not fast, it&rsquo;s not cheap, and you need at least two if you want to have a backup. What are you really gaining from all the custom hardware and software?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across a link to Lloyd Chambers&rsquo;s epic Drobo review from 2009: The DiskTester results are shown below. These are the slowest results with Firewire 800 I&rsquo;ve ever seen, by at least a factor of two, and about 1\/3 the speed achievable with a laptop hard drive in an OWC On-The-Go case. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5607"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11066,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607\/revisions\/11066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}