Updated: A new drobo firmware release now gives me ~7.5MBps on both download and upload through droboshare. Others have experienced problems with this release though so it should probably not be installed until these issues are resolved
I've seen very little posted online about Drobo's (first version Drobo) performance so I decided I'd post my own. This graph to the right shows Drobo1's sustained performance around 6.8 Megabytes (not bits) per second. This is on a 10/100 network using Drobo 1 and Droboshare with the latest firmware on both. It is a download transfer done on a Windows XP box from Drobo.
I'd be very curious to know what sort of speeds everyone else gets with their Drobos. I know mine will perform a lot better when it is directly connected via USB, but I don't think it will go any faster over Droboshare.
The net monitoring tool you see is NetMeter
September 12th, 2008 at 08:34
I am also curious about the performance of a DroboShare connected to many Drobo's and the transfer speed of a large amount of data over a 10/100 network.
As you've mentioned, it would be nice to see more posts detailing the differences between connecting a Drobo (or DroboShare with many Drobo's) via USB to the host computer VS connecting the host computer directly to the network.