and I can't imagine how I lived with the half dozen random external hard drives on my desk before I got this beautiful piece of hardware!I'm a professional wedding

This drive is a lot slower than my other USB 3 drives, and while I can accept that it is "doing more" to safeguard my data more than a WD Duo drive enclosure is doing - bottom line is that it takes 8 hours longer to back up (writing to the Drobo) the same information as to what I was doing with other dual drive solutions

I often work on client projects on location or while traveling then rsync photo catalogs and edited images from my portable hard drives to my Drobos to keep everything up to date and backed up

Drobo tech kept saying you got bad drives - I have a hard time

I had hoped to use this as a fast main drive for Photoshop and Premier

Therefore, if the Drobo fails it's not as easy as plugging the drives into another DAS or NAS and reading files.

Hard drive fails

Why is a drive that is categorized as "Good" deserving of a blinking red light and all the other drives solid

The 5D3 was a really easy to use and simple hard drive enclosure

Drobo says that apple measures space different...yet somehow Drobo is the only external hard drive I've ever used that seems to have this particular discrepancy

For someone who has very little prior knowledge in external hard drives, I found the device to be very user-friendly and easy to use.

It may take a bit longer for your hard drives to format especially if you previously used them for something else

and it does not store it on anybody else's hard drive or cloud

I no longer worry about my portable drive crashing.

The intent of a big redundant drive is file security, this drive keeps me up at night, and since it does not really speed up my process it was a waist of a few thousand dollars and I will end up shifting to a online storage system

I often work on client projects on location or while traveling then rsync photo catalogs and edited images from my portable hard drives to my Drobos to keep everything up to date and backed up

Just slide the drive in and it works except the 5D3

The switch from my old DroboS was simple enough – make sure the S was healthy, then just move the hard drives over to the

I like the drive, and feel it is the right solution moving forward, I do hope that Drobo will get Thunderbolt 3 support sooner than later.

I have a Synology 2 disc NAS for about 5 yrs and it just keep trucking along with no issues other than 1 hard drive fail and that that's pretty normal.

GB - mSATA Internal SSD http://amzn.to/2ylE1vL into the Drobo 5D3.I am also using a 27" iMac with Sierra 10.2.6.My workflow as a professional photographer involves shooting on location to an external hard drive then copying those images to my Drobo when I return to the studio

The drives themselves are excellent, but the performance of the Drobo is terrible

I got three bad drives from Amazon.

It accepted the old hard drives from the 5D with minimal headaches

It's perfect for a home office desktop that stores everything for the family on one hard drive on one computer.

This program does not cover failed hard drives, but service begins the day you activate DroboCare

I especially like the built-in battery that protects against power cuts, always good to know you have that extra backup.