Data Robotics, Inc Drobo storage array (up to 16TB, FW800/USB)

As data continues to devour your storage capacity, you need a solution that allows you to easily manage, protect, and scale storage for your PC or Mac. For you, we've created Drobo, the first fully-automated storage robot to take the pain out of keeping your important digital content safe.

- FireWire 800 (FireWire 400 compatible)
- Enhanced USB 2.0 performance
- Quieter, cooler operation
- Redundant data protection
- Hot expandable up to 16TB
- The ability to take advantage of mix and match drive capacities
- SATA I or SATA II hard disk drives (Full or half-height)
- No carriers required
- Choose the drive manufacturer, capacity (mixed capacities ok), and spindle speed or cache that fits your current storage needs

No Headache Data Redundancy
Drobo utilizes a revolutionary storage technology that makes it simple for anyone to use, yet is powerful enough for business. Once you experience the power of Drobo, the idea of keeping multiple external drives or a RAID 5 array will seem as antiquated as that 28.8Kbps modem in the back of your closet.

Incomparable Expandability
Your library of data grows every moment. Now, your storage solution expands in seconds, too. Drobo holds up to four hard drives, can expand at any time, and supports up to 16TB on a single volume as disk sizes increase. Choose how big you want your Drobo today with any combination of drives capacities.

Speed Demon: FireWire 800 & USB 2.0
Why compromise? Safety and accessibility now go hand in hand. Experience Drobo with both FireWire 800 and USB 2.0. It's the data protection and peace of mind you need with the performance and interface you want.

BeyondRAID™ Technology
Going beyond traditional RAID means leaving behind choices between striping and mirroring, limitations on expandability, drive sizing, and drive ordering, among others. BeyondRAID is the next generation of redundant storage technology that brings together safety, reliability, expandability, efficiency, and of course, ease-of-use. It is RAID in the sense that the technology utilizes a redundant array of independent disks but not in the usual meaning of the acronym.

Battery-Backed NVRAM What happens when the lights go out? Most storage arrays simply drop what they are doing, leaving your data at risk for corruption. Drobo has battery-backed NVRAM, a feature typically found only on devices many times its price, to help reduce the risks of file system, metadata, and general data corruption.

Carrier-less, Screw-less Drive Installation Screws are for nuts. Drobo does not require tools, screws, or proprietary drive carriers to install or remove a hard drive. It's all done with the touch of a button.

Drive Reordering When you remove your disks from Drobo, you can put them back in any order you like. Having to remember the particular order of drives seems odd doesn't it? Hence, Data Robotics discarded that limitation so that the system behaves exactly as you would expect.

File System and Operating System Agnostic Drobo and its underlying technologies currently support the Windows, Mac, and Linux* platforms with file system support for NTFS, HFS Plus, EXT3, and FAT32. Since Drobo is a block level system, it adapts easily. One major benefit of this is that Drobo and DroboShare can operate as network attached storage while formatted in your native file system.

Data Sharing Ethernet Interface
Interface: Firewire 800 (2) and USB 2.0 (1)
Number of Ports: 3

File System Options
Windows: NTFS
Mac OS X: HFS+
Cross-Platform: FAT32
Linux: EXT3

Other Specifications
Power: Auto sensing 110v or 220v
Weight: 12lbs
Operating Temperature: 10°C-35°C (50°-95°F)
Operating Altitude: 2,438m (8,000 ft)
Drobo Dashboard (optional): Microsoft® Windows® OS, Apple® Macintosh® OS-X v10.4+
Expansion Bays Total (Free): 4 ( 4 ) x internal - 3.5-inch
Supported Device: Hard drive
Storage Controller Type: Serial ATA
Hard Drive Type: Internal
Total Array Capacity: 16 TB

Optional DroboShare, Gigabit Ethernet Companion to Drobo
The DroboShare™ companion to Drobo allows you to share your data over the network. It’s so easy to use that it makes connecting a drive over the network as trivial as attaching a drive directly to your computer.

Model no.:
Drobo - DR04DD50
Drobo + 2x 1TB Seagate drives - DROBOFW2TB
Drobo + 3x 1TB Seagate drives - DROBOFW3TB
Drobo + 4x 1TB Seagate drives - DROBOFW4TB
DroboShare - DR00DE10