[mythtv-users] DroboShare and HD Question

[Tom Lichti]

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Gerald Brandt <gbr at majentis.com> wrote:
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> ----- "Gerald Brandt" <gbr at majentis.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is anyone here running a Drobo and sharing disk space via DroboShare?
>>
>> My setup, until recently, was a 4 TB raid 5 array shared via SMB to my
>> master backend.  I recently lost 2 drives in the RAID (ugh), and I'm looking
>> at the Droboshare as a replacement.
>>
>> I have 2 HDPVR's and 3 frontends.  Is the DroboShare (GB ethernet to
>> network) going to be fast enough for me?  Although the Drobo itself has
>> Firewire 800, the Droboshare connects to the Drobo via USB 2 only.

While not exactly the same, I am using a Dlink 323 NAS (GB ethernet as
well) box as my only storage group, with 2 HDHR's, 2 PVR-150's, and 3
frontends, and I do not have any issues with recording or playback.

Tom