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Overview 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.
DroboCare for Drobo
The DroboCare™ Support program extends your peace of mind beyond the standard warranty term and phone support included with your Drobo™ purchase. In fact, DroboCare gives you more, even during your standard warranty period.¹
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 in a few days. With the standard warranty, we are able to ship a replacement only after we receive your unit.
Your Business Safety Net
With DroboCare, you receive 12 months of phone and web support for your technical issues during local business hours. With the standard warranty, technical support is provided for the first 90 days following purchase.
Trust Your Drobo to DroboCare
The DroboCare Support program is available if your products are still under standard warranty or currently protected by DroboCare. It can be renewed, one year at a time, as long as the Drobo product you are protecting is still being sold².
The terms governing the DroboCare Support program can be found at http://www.datarobotics.com/support
¹ DroboCare must be activated within 30 days of purchase date from the Drobo Store.
² Sold by an authorized Data Robotics, Inc. Reseller and unit is still under standard warranty or currently protected by DroboCare.
Features Features
- 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
Technology 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. Why don't other storage device makers do the same thing? Good question. It's probably because Data Robotics has patented the idea, but feel free to call other vendors and ask them why you can't recover your data when you've lost your 3/16th inch Phillips-head screwdriver. Watch the videos of how easy it is to insert a hard drive into Drobo.
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.
Tech Specs | 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 |
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