April 10, 2010 – I’m a big fan of the Drobos and have been using them for years in my studio. In the beginning, I connected a Drobo to a Mac via FireWire 800, turned on file sharing and mounted the Drobo on my desktop over the Gigabit network. I was able to achieve fast data transfer speeds and could work directly off the Drobo. I considered using the DroboShare to simplify the setup and connect it directly to my network without the computer interface, but it only had a USB 2.0 connection which would slow down the transfer rates to 400mps. Now, Data Robotics has changed they way we can work with the release of their new Drobo FS.
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