Drobo B810n 8-Bay NAS Review

[Guest]

Drobo. Now that's a name we haven't heard in a long time. The company is back, and it sent us its new Marvell-powered B810n storage appliance to test. Is there new magic in this once-prolific brand, or does it fail to reignite that old flame?

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[Khimera2000]

Would of like to see the qnap tvs-871 i3 in the review. Its in the same price range. The qnap model mentioned in the article isnt even stocked on newegg any more, and although it makes for nice charts it does nothing from a buyers perspective.Adding something that might of passed end of life just skews performance expectation at the given price point.

Just my opinion on it.

 

[firefoxx04]

$1600 with only 2gb ram and no support for zfs (or equivalent). Pretty sad when they market it for big data. Raidz2 with 3 or 4tb disks would be nice.

 

[Blytz]

Have to say I would get another DS1815+ Synology unit over that drobo any day of the week. Equal or better specs, about 1/2 the price.

Not to say the Drobo is a poor unit, just very overpriced for what's on off

 

[Xajel]

I wonder when NAS becomes more home friendly in pricing and features... Dual Lan port with Link aggregation and 4-6 bays with support for expandability using USB 3 drives ( or another DAS ) for timely backups is not that much of a problem... wondering why prices for such features are very high

 

[milkod2001]

@XAJEL
Look up for Zyxel 540 or 542, affordable 4 bay, dual lan port unit

 

[DPichugin]

Drobo b810n has 2 ethernet ports, and support port bonding. It was not clear whether bonded port configuration was used for benchmarking. I would expect different numbers for bonded port test. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_aggregation for details.