LESLIEx317537.com » Drobo http://lesliex317537.com Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:47:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Drobo + Mac Mini = File/Media Server http://lesliex317537.com/2009/04/21/drobo-mac-mini-filemedia-server/ http://lesliex317537.com/2009/04/21/drobo-mac-mini-filemedia-server/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:36:49 +0000 LES http://lesliex317537.com/?p=168 Continue reading →]]>

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About a month ago, I picked up a Drobo and stopped using my Vista PC for my raid storage.  At first I picked up the Droboshare with the Drobo which is a network interface for the Drobo which has gigabyte Ethernet.  I thought that would be good, but turns out the connection to the Drobo is still USB 2.0. So it basically has a bottleneck from 1000Mbs to 400Mbs.  Also when testing out the Droboshare over my gigabit network I was getting constant disconnects from the Droboshare.
I later decided I would pay about 400 more and just get a new Mac Mini that has Firewire 800 and hook that up to my Drobo and share it over the network.  This solution worked and has been very reliable so far.  I can also run Boxee and other media related applications on the Mini which is a plus.
If anyone is planning on getting a Drobo and a Droboshare, I would highly reccomend checking out this common solution instead.

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