Recent content by borghost

I doubt he has read the thread or he wouldn't bother repeating everyone and wasting his own time much less ours. For myself, I haven't been making an argument for Drobo vs WHS other than to generally say WHS doesn't appeal to me for various reasons and the Drobo does. That's just for me and...

Odditory, aside from your not regarding anything posted previously in this thread (which already covers each subject you bring up and undermines some of what you just posted), if you were just a little bit honest and a little less exaggerative, you might be helping people get good information...

Agreed. I ran into something like this twice in the three years I had my Gen 2, but I didn't notice the slow down until it was almost pegged. Now, maybe I wasn't paying attention and it started sooner than that. But it did fill the drive at the end. When it happened the first time I just...

Thanks Haxx. Well at the time of this two-stream test, I had 1.46TB on it already. I'm moving over another 1TB in the next day or so. At this point, I believe all that will be on this FS unit will be full films transferred in large batches. Hopefully that will help keep fragmentation of the...

Thanks haxxorboi. My concerns are on a back burner for certain. I don't see any problems multi-streaming from a Drobo FS at this point. No doubt, 70MB/s sounds fabulous on some other solutions. But I'm not seeing where I will ever be needing that for multiple streams of 1080 films like...

Well, I still welcome the reply on the MB vs Mb question. But I think I found confirmation that is really is showing the file transfer in MB (and actually bytes) and the film stream only coming in as Mb (bits). I pulled up a port activity monitor and as Braveheart is streaming to the one...

Quickie update. I have been testing multi streaming of 1080 films from the Drobo FS to just two machines. I'm streaming Avatar (1080, 22.55BGB) to one machine and Braveheart (1080, 22.12GB) to another machine for the last 30 minutes. It has been flawless viewing so far. I know I've seen...

Sorry man. Position is still the same. Still no time before the holidays. Like I said (twice), after the holidays is my only chance and it is still a maybe. Especially when you consider I'm satisfied already. As for WHS vs Drobo, I think a number of people have already said, like 10 times...

Excellent points and great comments MrCrispy. I agree with everything you have said. I'll just explain where I'm at on some of your points and probably expose how lazy I am (or foolish). Drobo Ecosystem Lock-in: I agree that the Drobo ecosystem has a proprietary format. However, I don't...

Relax. You sound like you have been having nightmares about past problems that I have not been having for the two or three years that I have been using Drobos. I paid $600 for a headache-free solution that I didn't have to "build" in some homemade fashion. Pardon me for not having the time or...

I’m not going to dispute anything anyone is saying here. Everything I have read here seems understandable to me. For example, if someone thinks the Drobo is slow, I believe that it probably is for their purposes. If someone thinks the Drobo is a POS. Well, it may be in his experience for...