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 DroboShare is Very Slow August 12, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
The DroboShare unit is very slow. They advertise a gigabit ethernet, but this is 4x-8x slower than USB 2.0. I have had this DroboShare for a month and am now not using it due to how slow it is.
 Less than you would expect from Dobro July 28, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Drobo hardware is well built, cleverly designed, and comes with all the A++ quality cables that you need. Even the packaging has cool graphics, and the training videos for the Drobo itself are first rate and industry leaders. What happened with the Droboshare? Who knows. The documentation is spotty and as of this writing is not available off their website. Data transfer rates are ho-hum. Curiously no step by step complete installation procedure exists for this box. If you write tech support they will write you back with most of what you need to know. An experienced user can guess the rest. For a company like Drobo this box is not ready for prime time.
Too slow for a network drive July 5, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
The data transfer over the network is slow that it does not meet the standard of today's network drive. You probably won't notice it if you copy a file or two. But if you try to copy large files (over gigabyte), you may want come back in a few hours. Trust me, I have other network drives at home in comparison to the Droboshare. In addition, it's overprice for something that doesn't perform.
Nice but too slow May 28, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is a neat product, much like the original Drobo device in that is very easy to setup and use.
The big problem, however, is that it is very slow. I expected some added latency with this device but I have to say that it is much more significant than I was hoping. The device goes into a sleep mode after a period of inactivity, so waking it up takes some added time, 3 or 4 seconds maybe. But even after it is spun up, it is still quiet slow, particularly when I am moving files around or flipping through photos. This is the first personal home NAS device I've used so maybe this amount of slowness is typical with these things.
The convenience of being able to access my Drobo easily from any computer in the house is worth it to me and it integrates very nicely with my Drobo, so I am keeping it.
Update 23 October 2008:
I can't deal with it anymore. It is just too slow. I am going to look at other options. I should have just done this in the first place.
 Droboshare May 23, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
EXCELLENT product, and installation was essentially automatic when adding to my iMac and existing Drobo (LOVE DROBO). But MAC users take note - I didn't research this carefully prior to purchase. My main usage of Drobo is backup using Time Machine. When Drobo is installed on my network via Droboshare, Time Machine DOES NOT recognize it, and it CANNOT be utilized for backup with Time Machine. I am very disappointed, but Apple does not support this (I wish I knew why). Awesome product for network storage, but still waiting for the ability to use it like I intended. (Note - entirely my own over-sight - the Drobo web-site clearly states it cannot be used with Time Machine).
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