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Drobo the first fully-automated storage robot that takes the pain out of keeping your important digital content safe. The Drobo combines up to four hard drives (sold separately) into a big pool of protected storage. You can upgrade capacity on-the-fly by adding drives at any time. You can mix and match capacities, brands, and speeds with no downtime, data migration, or waiting to access new capacity. Just connect Drobo to your Mac or PC and it does everything for you so you won t have to worry about RAID levels, management or configuration. Drobo does everything for you, keeping your data safe and accessible.

Color: Black Brand: Data Robotics Model: 900-00002-002 Original language: English Dimensions: 12.80" h x 15.50" w x 11.00" l, 10.70 pounds Sold Individually

Customer Reviews more useful than 158 154 people have found this review helpful. It works exactly as advertised - Terrific! Randy Connell I was using my Drobo strongly last month, it is useful to host multiple databases. Drobo is owned and operated by the state, in other words, the anti-climatic. But do not confuse "anti-climate" with "disappointing"! Drobo works exactly as advertised and is ridiculously easy to install and use. There is a great sense of accomplishment when Drobo is online, and even deliberately "failed" by removing disks is aging, after a couple of demonstrations. It works, and the magic is hidden behind a black box clean technique. The front is attached with magnets. It 'easy to remove, sure many if connected. I think it's a design decision much more articulated armor, how can I get the Drobo into tight spaces or leaving the front completely. While most of the front is opaque, there are transparent areas in order to drive the status lights can be seen as a function of added security, the faceplate does not connect properly if any of the gray disc catches are open (indicating that a device is not properly inserted). The rear of the Drobo is just as clean. Obvious are the air holes for the internal fan, and the two connectors: USB and power. No power switch or buttons anywhere; Drobo is a literal interpretation of a "black box". There is also a slot for connecting a laptop-style anti-theft cable (so you can block the mobile Drobo nearby), and a hole for the reset button. Drobo fan is audible, but easily crushed between noise office. Since then I put Drobo into a closet and I do not expect to hear even when I'm the only person in the office. I also recommend the use of "silent" units, otherwise the ticking of read / write heads may be distracting. There is some friction when inserting a drive, but nothing unusual The main source of friction is the gray catch on the left side, which snaps into place once a drive is fully inserted. The drives do not pop out easily, even when the gray catch is pushed aside. Perhaps I don't know the secret yet, but it took some fumbling every time I attempted to remove a drive. While Drobo can utilize any 3.5 inch SATA hard drive, I opted to use a pair of their recommended drives. Drobo connected easily via USB to my limited-account Win2K computer, installing as a generic USB Mass Storage Device. While it attached correctly, I could not use Drobo because my limited user account prohibits formatting any drives. Were it already formatted for NTFS (or I had Administrator rights for my work PC), it would have worked like a charm. I had no problems attaching or formatting with my home Windows XP or Windows Vista PC's (where I have full privileges). Drobo connected just as easily to my nearby eMac running OS X 104.9. It took OS X about 10 minutes to format the drive as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) (aka HFS+). It appeared on the desktop as a generic USB drive icon, which I was able to easily change thanks to a supplied Drobo icon from the Drobo website. The format step brings up my biggest concern for Drobo: portability between Windows and OS X. Drobo officially supports NTFS and HFS+, but not any version of FAT. This makes sense from a technical standpoint but can be an issue for those expecting to use Drobo across both operating systems. FAT, while common and compatible with nearly every current operating system, has limitations that can be frustrating to the unwitting user. These limits include file-size restrictions and the inability to format/use FAT partitions above a relatively low size. Neither NTFS nor HFS+ suffer these restrictions (yet), but Windows cannot easily read/write HFS+ drives, and ditto for OS X and NTFS. FAT can be used, but compatibility will be sketchy due to different versions of FAT and limitations/bugs in the operating system's implementation In short, format as NTFS for Windows and HFS+ for.