Comments on: Drobo Benchmark: How Fast is the Drobo?

By: Elliott

Elliott — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:36:50 +0000

The benchmarks on this forum seem to indicate that the Drobos are limited not by USB or Firewire but by the first gen and second gen devices. The benchmark here is a Drobo 1, probably the 2nd gen one is significantly faster.

By: calvin

calvin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:13:44 +0000

60MB/s out of USB 2.slow? You’ve been reading Intel’s marketing materials again. I’ve never seen a USB 2.0 device give me more than 20MB/s in any real world test. Firewire 400 is twice as fast, in the real world, and Firewire 800 twice again as fast.

The USB 2.0 speed you got out of your Drobo is about what I’d expect out of a typical USB 2.0 device.

I’d love to see a benchmark of the FW800 version of Drobo, just to see if it really is slow, or if it’s just the slow USB interface.

By: Harry

Harry — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:39:27 +0000

Did some further benchmarking at http://randomspitting.net/gobbets/random/drobo to figure out the impact of DroboShare

By: Elliott Back

Elliott Back — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:06:18 +0000

OK, but USB 2.0 is capable of 60MB/s, so I don’t really blame that for the performance I measured.

By: leo

leo — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:53:37 +0000

NOTE: This is for the USB ONLY version. This benchmark is not for the firewire version.