If you've been watching GeekBrief.TV for a while, you're familiar with my love of Data Robotics, the company that made Drobo (the first storage robot). Their newest edition is the Drobo Pro. Data Robotics makes data redundancy easy. Shortly after I fired up my first Drobo, I asked them for a Pro version (http://m.podshow.com/media/13917/episodes/91078/gbtv-91078-12-14-2007.mp4) with double the drive bays. Two days ago my wish to have a Drobo Pro came true. I had 13 external and internal drives with GeekBrief.TV related files, and it took about 40 hours to get everything transferred due mainly to three drives that only had USB ports. Here's a look at the read/write speeds we got with Drobo Pro. USB Read: 15.8 MB/second Write: 13.8 MB/second Firewire 800 Read: 53.4 MB/second Write: 43 MB/second iSCSI Read: 73.6 MB/second Write: 78.7 MB/second We used a free application called AJA System Test to get these results. You can download here. For photographers, video professionals, small ...
