Drobo, Inc. Products - Drobo Mini

DroboCare for Drobo Mini

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DroboCare is simple, powerful protection for your Drobo storage. DroboCare extends your peace of mind beyond the standard warranty term of 2 years, provides advanced replacement, and enhances technical phone support. In fact, DroboCare gives you more, even during your standard warranty period.

The Fastest Way to Get Up and Running Again

With DroboCare, if something goes wrong, we'll send you a replacement Drobo right away, so you'll have it as quickly as possible—even before you send us back your Drobo. We call it "advanced hardware replacement"; we also expedite your shipment and pay for shipping both ways. With the standard warranty, you pay to ship the Drobo to us and wait until we receive your Drobo and ship you a replacement.

Your Business Safety Net

With DroboCare, phone support is available 24x7, starting the day you activate DroboCare until the end of your coverage. With the standard warranty, phone support is provided only for the first 90 days following purchase and is subject to local business hours.

How Does It Work?

To make it simple, there are two options available when you purchase a Drobo Mini:

Standard hardware warranty. You get 2 years of standard hardware warranty with the purchase of your Drobo. It's free and you don't have to do anything—but we would like you to register your Drobo to make it easier for us to provide you with the best support.
Standard hardware warranty + DroboCare. Purchase DroboCare at any time during your standard warranty period, extend your warranty from 2 to 3 years, get advanced hardware replacement and 24x7 phone support.

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Drobo Mini

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Mini in Size Only

Drobo Mini has everything that’s in the high-capacity Drobo 5D in a package that’s the size of a deli sandwich. Made of a cutting-edge metallic carbon fiber with a soft-touch rubberized finish, Drobo Mini is small, rugged, and feels as cool as it looks. From the modern materials to the wraparound light indicators to the drive bay design, Mini is truly big storage in a small box.

Weighing in at about 3 pounds (fully loaded with drives installed), you can now carry up to 3TB of usable and protected capacity in your travel bag. To make Drobo Mini as portable as possible, there’s an optional carrying case that holds the Drobo, power supply, and a connectivity cable.

First Drobo with 2.5” Drives

Drobo Mini takes 2.5” drives—that’s what makes it portable. Four hot-swappable drive bays support drives of any capacity. No carriers or screws are needed to insert drives into a Drobo and the Drobo Mini is no different. An innovative new design allows drives to click in and out like a ballpoint pen.

Data Protection and Expandability Made Simple

Built on award-winning BeyondRAID technology with single- or dual-drive redundancy, Drobo Mini protects your data without any user interaction, even in the event of multiple drive failures.

Drives can be added or hot-swapped on-the-fly for storage expansion with zero downtime. If you’re running low on space, the wraparound lights on the front tell you what to do. Just add a drive in an empty bay or remove a smaller drive and replace it with a larger one.

Power of Thunderbolt & Flexibility of USB

Drobo Mini is equipped with dual Thunderbolt ports for daisy chaining. Connect up to six Thunderbolt devices and/or a non-Thunderbolt monitor at the end of the chain. This allows even the most portable laptop computers access to high-performance storage while retaining connectivity to other devices and an external monitor. The bidirectional 10 Gbps performance of Thunderbolt allows all devices in the chain to achieve maximum throughput.

Drobo is the only storage array that offers Thunderbolt AND USB 3.0. This latest generation of USB also offers high-performance connectivity and is backward compatibility with any computer running compatible versions of Mac OS X or Windows.

Capacity AND Performance

Data-Aware Tiering technology, usually reserved for business-class storage solutions, is also available in this portable Drobo. It intelligently uses the high-performance flash in SSDs to accelerate performance of the storage array, allowing applications such as Adobe Premiere and Apple Aperture fast access to data. To keep capacity of the Drobo at a maximum, the Drobo Accelerator Bay accepts an industry-standard mSATA SSD, leaving all four 2.5” drives bays available for high-capacity HDDs.If getting the fastest performance possible is your thing, you can also load up every drive bay with SSDs. That would be a screaming fast portable Drobo!

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Drobo Mini 1.5TB Bundle includes: (1) Drobo Mini 4-bay Storage Array and (2) 750GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drives.

Drobo Mini 3TB Bundle includes: (1) Drobo Mini 4-bay Storage Array and (4) 750GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drives.

60GB mSATA SSD Drive

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60GB mSATA SSD drive for use in Drobo 5D and Drobo Mini Accelerator Bay.

Drobo Mini Carrying Case

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Protective carrying case that holds a Drobo Mini, a power supply, and a connectivity cable.