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I just bought the Thunderbolt 3 Drobo, and realize it's completely pointless without SSDs. It advertises 40 Gbit speeds when using an active Thunderbolt 3 cable
by ben174 9y ago
I just bought the Thunderbolt 3 Drobo, and realize it's completely pointless without SSDs. It advertises 40 Gbit speeds when using an active Thunderbolt 3 cable, but only gets about 200 MB/s with normal drives. I could probably get close to that with the USB drobo.
- Bud 9y agoYes. But you're totally future-proof now. And you can speed it up a ton if you throw in a single fast SSD as the cache disk. Then in 4-8 years, when the price/performance works for you, you can throw in all SSDs.
- ferongr 9y agoWouldn't the speed ultimately be limited by the CPU speed of the Drobo itself instead of the interface? Even hardware accelerated hashing has limits.