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I did like the built in battery with the Drobo though, that was a great feature IMO, which the Lacie does not have. It seems the Drobo has a lot more to load and takes more to maintain the array etc, whereas the Lacie seems to be much 'lighter' on its feet.
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Even with the same drives, I still feel the Lacie would be faster - the Drobo seems more 'bulky' in comparison. My Drobo 5D contains 3TB WD Red drives, so lower performing drives in comparison, hence why I didn't think it was fair to do a speed comparison between both. Looking at the cost of the drives, you can see where most of the expense comes from! It contains 5x4TB Seagate Constellation 7200rpm drives. I went for the 20TB version, which comes prebuilt with a RAID5 HFS+ array. Yup its the new one thats just been released. Used my server to copy all the data across, and the drive is now seated comfortably in its new home with my MBP Out of the box, RAID5 with HFS+, I get around 750MB/s speeds (Black Magic Disk Speed Test), although obviously those looking to use RAID0 will get much faster - the 20TB version can get up to 950MB/s, whereas the 30TB version gets up to 1050MB/s.Ī video review of the drive will be on my YouTube channel soon Ultimately, if you are after only a basic storage device then the Drobo5D is great due to its lower cost - but for any 'proper' work, especially with video editing, the Lacie is awesome! The Drobo management interface is more refined and user friendly, but saying that once RAID is set up on the Lacie (it comes as HFS+ RAID5 out of the box anyway) you rarely need to use it for anything else.īeen using it with FCPX and its been fantastic. Obviously the aluminium chassis also acts as a heatsink. The Drobo5D takes around 1-2 mins to start up, whereas the Lacie takes literally 10 secs.Ĭooling is also much better - large intake covering the entire base (propped up on rubber feet) and a massive exhaust on the rear, with a single large Noctua fan pushing the heat out and away from the drives. Mine is all set up now - transferred all my data across from the Drobo 5D to the new Lacie - went at around 7 secs per GB.Ĭompared to the Drobo5D, its obviously MUCH faster, and its much quieter as well. I also wanted RAID5, which is only available with the newest version of the Lacie. My main MacBook, used for my editing, has TB2 ports.