To the best of my knowledge, Drobos work quite well connected directly to the client. Current models even have things like eSATA interfaces, which will be pretty fast.
Be careful in that the NAS model (DroboFS) does not have a local interface, only Ethernet. That would prevent you from swapping back and forth from local to network connections. Dan On Feb 6, 2012, at 10:08 AM, Brian Toscano <brian.tosc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dan also said the Dobro was a poor network performer. > > It may be that local storage is best. > > I wonder if a Dobro would be fine for regular use, and then just connect it > locally for backups. > > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> The iMac is going to be your absolute best solution, iTunes will allow you >> to share the music between computers, it'll be sweet. Anything else will be >> a PITA to setup and anything in your price range probably won't work out >> real well bandwidth-wise. >> >> About a month ago I was at a TV station in South Carolina training them on >> their shared storage solution. At one point we're running network >> connection tests back to the server from the client systems. Most of them >> were normal at around 100MB/s, one is dog slow, like 1MB/s. It turned out >> the editor had a Drobo mapped to what should have been one of our drive >> letters. I was significantly under-impressed with what the Drobo was >> capable of. I guess in local mode they're okay but over the network - >> gross... >> >> -Curt >> >> Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 13:41:34 -0700 >> From: Brian Toscano <brian.tosc...@gmail.com> >> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Mac NAS options >> Message-ID: >> <CACnCPhmKRSbb236F8xC3nQu6_hQzNt1=l2m6xaq+kog7h2v...@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> Ed, >> >> Currently I have local hard drives connected to my laptop with FireWire and >> maintain 2 sets of the same files, one lossless and one AAC128. The AAC128 >> files are stored on my laptop hard drive. The lossless files are on the >> external drives. >> >> I would like to get the hard drives off my desk to save space & noise, and >> have one less cable attached to my laptop. I would also like to eliminate >> the AAC128 files. >> >> I would like to have a NAS that connects via GigE to my WiFi router. That >> way I can stream the audio files to my laptop, which streams them to an >> Apple Airport Express wirelessly. I have a pair of JBL studio monitors >> connected to the Airport Express. For times when I want to make a backup >> of the NAS attached storage, I figured I could use a patch cable and do the >> backup over the network to backup drives attached to my laptop. >> >> Perhaps the easiest thing to do is to get an iMac with a 2TB internal >> drive. That way I wouldn't worry about the portability and wouldn't have >> as many external drives! That would be a 5-7 year solution :-) >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
