Trouble importing photos to DROBO on new iMac-painfully slow

I have been using LR without trouble for years. After switching from my old MacbookPro to a new iMac, I am unable to import photos. The trouble coincides with the move to the new computer.
LR recognizes the photos when I insert the CF card. I am able to start the import, but the import is ridiculously slow (20 raw images in an hour). I have backed up my catalogue and optimized the catalogue. When this failed to help, I trashed LR (by dragging application to trash) and reinstalled it.
I AM able to import onto my Hard Drive. But not to the DROBO where my LR library is contained.
Also, LR is no longer able to distiguish between new photos and photos already in catalogue. And at times I get a message saying that LR cannot open my catalogue. Rebooting the computer fixes this, but it is a troubling message.
Thank you for your help.
Message was edited by: jessica eve

Check the Drobo support pages and third-party sites. The Drobo is infamous for being desperately slow under some circumstances and for some apps. It also appears that the app is having trouble locking the Lr catalogue database on the Drobo device, which is why you are getting errors opening up the app sometimes.
It really sounds like you have some config problems you need to sort out. Start from the basics: how is the Drobo storage physically accessed by the iMac, and what protocol is it using to get the storage to show up in /Volumes/?
Make sure the Drobo firmware is up-to-date, and check the iMac logs (and the Drobo logs, if it has such a thing) to see if there is anything out of the ordinary there. You may also want to verify that the cables and connectors you use to get from the iMac to the Drobo are sound. Swap cables if you have to, just to rule that out. If you are using Firewire or USB, make sure the cables are rated for the highest speed each devices supports, and that you are not going through any dodgy hubs.
Because it sounds like it is sustained bulk transfers that are suffering; typically this indicates that one device or another in the chain is slowing the traffic down in order to satisfy a basic data safety requirement.

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