[photon209 (Unverified) Posted Jul 8th 2008 11:09AM]

All I really wanna know is, is this fast enough with the DroboShare to stream video on my home network to my PS3. Anyone know?

[simplisticton (Unverified) Posted Jul 8th 2008 11:24AM]

Well, it's fast enough to stream HD content from my Mac+Drobo (rev. 1) over GigE (Airport Extreme) to my MythTV box (Asus P5E-HDMI mb, 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo).

Does the PS3 support GigE or 802.11n? If so, and your network supports it too, then the answer is "probably".

[photon209 (Unverified) Posted Jul 8th 2008 11:37AM]

Ok, I lied. The more I thought about it, I have more than one concern.

I've been looking at the QNAP TS-409 (good reviews, tons of server stuff, not enough memory) but they've got a new model due soon (TS-509 July?) which adds more horsepower and memory which should boost performance (and price I'm sure).

I'm new to RAID, so I have some simple questions about it...
One feature of the Drobo that is always touted is the 'any size disk' - is this like JBOD?
Can't a standard RAID system like the new Thecus just let you swap out a disk and do a rebuild?
I've always wondered what happens down the road when you have a set of drives they don't make anymore and one dies. Can't a RAID system just accept any old drive? (assuming it's as big or bigger than the one that died) (also assuming it's a RAID level for security, not speed of course)

As long as I could hook the Drobo up to my (almost always running) PC can't I just use the PC to share it on my network? Don't need the $200 DroboShare then.

Haven't read reviews of the Thecus products, but it looks to be coming down to:

Wait for QNAP TS-509 and see how much it is (maybe go with TS-409 then)
Wait for some more reviews of the new Thecus device.
Get a Drobo V2 and hope it's fast enough to stream files smoothly.

I actually already have 4 1TB SATA drives waiting to be used in one of these. Where to put em!