Product overview

Chances are, you get passionate about creating or collecting digital content, not about managing the storage where it lives. For you we’ve created Drobo, the first robotic storage device that takes the pain out of keeping your content safe.

Benefits

• Drobo guards everything on it.
Drobo combines up to four hard drives into a big pool of protected storage. Start
with two, grow to four, then upsize smaller drives—get Terabytes of protection.

• Drobo upgrades capacity on-the-fly.
Add drives to Drobo at any time. Mix ’n match capacities, brands or speeds. No downtime,
data migration, or waiting to access new capacity. Drobo works the way you do.

• Drobo lets you “pay as you grow”
Hard drives get bigger and cheaper all the time. Don’t buy storage capacity until you
need it. Buy capacity “just-in-time” possibly saving you hundreds of dollars.

• Drobo manages storage, so you don’t have to
Just connect Drobo to your Mac or PC. No software required. No RAID levels.
No management or configuration. Drobo does everything for you.
Get rid of multiple external drives. Avoid the complexity of RAID. Attach a Drobo storage
robot to your system and let it manage your storage so you don’t have to.

Features

• Robotic Operation

Drobo is programmed to take actions on your behalf; always ensuring it’s keeping your data safe and optimized:

– Auto-formatting of added drives1
– Auto-repair of data after drive failure
– Auto-repair of data corruption
– Auto-repair of data redundancy
– Auto-expansion of storage pool
(when drives are added or upsized)
– Auto-sense & display of capacity used

• Consolidated Capacity

Regardless of how many hard drives are installed, your Mac or PC sees one large drive:

– Consolidation of storage into large pool
– Accessible via High-Speed USB 2.0
– Accepts one to four drives

• Automated Protection

Data on Drobo is automatically protected against drive failure and data corruption:

– Redundant protection of all data
– Protection against drive failure
– Sensing and avoiding data corruption
– Auto-repair of data after drive failure2
– Protection against multiple drive failures2

• Flexible Configuration
It’s extremely easy to add capacity to Drobo; just like adding ink to a printer:

– Uses standard 3.5” SATA I or II drives
– Accepts any brand, capacity, or speed
– No tools, just insert drives into slots

• Infinite Expansion

Expand capacity forever by adding new, or upsizing installed drives without data migration or configuration:

– Insert new drives to any available bay
– Replace installed hard drives with larger drives to increase total capacity
– New capacity is available instantly
– Add drives without downtime or configuration

• Intuitive Indicators

Drobo informs you what actions are required with simple to understand indicator lights (no software required)

– Green = healthy, no action necessary
– Yellow = low, add drive here soon
– Red = full, add drive immediately
– Flashing red = failure, replace drive