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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.

Earlier this month Apple released a New Mac Pro and updated the Consumer Desktop line which consists of the new iMacs and Mac Minis.
The new iMac’s and Mac Mini’s are based on the new NVidia chipset like the unibody MacBooks and run on 1066mhz DDR3 ram.
I recently picked up a new Mac Mini and a Drobo storage device to setup as a file/media server and will be posting a little about my setup later on.
You can buy and find out more about the new:
Mac Pro here – http://www.apple.com/macpro/
iMac here – http://www.apple.com/imac/
Mac Mini here – http://www.apple.com/macmini/