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Nov 23

Drobo Elite and Drobo S

Protect the Irreplaceable

The failure of an individual hard drive is inevitable. Drobo protects your most valuable assets by storing your images redundantly across hard drives, so no matter which drive fails your data is safe and you maintain access.

Stop Stacking External Drives!

Drobo avoids the hassles, confusion and tangles of multiple external hard drives. Your photo library is growing and your storage needs are accelerating. Shouldn’t your storage solution scale too? Drobo is the only instantly expandable redundant storage solution. Start with what you need this year and scale to 16TB* over time without ever needing to migrate your data. Need more storage? Simply insert another hard drive or replace your smallest drive.

Simple to Manage

Spend more time taking photos and less time reading your storage device’s instruction manual. Drobo was designed from the ground up to be simple enough for anyone to use. Drobo will save you time and money.

Solutions for Amateurs and Professional Alike

Drobo can be incorporated into your environment in a number of ways. Connect a Drobo to your laptop or desktop by USB or FireWire. Connect a Drobo to DroboShare to create a networked storage server. Use Drobo for redundant primary storage or backup. Drobo is perfect for Aperture, Lightroom and Photoshop.

Drobo + Photography

When digital photography became the de facto medium for capturing and storing images, it created the challenge of keeping those files safe while also making them readily accessible. Drobo safely stores your terabytes of digital image files and allows blazingly fast access to each and every one of them. As a photographer, your image rides on your images. With Drobo, both are safe.

Drobo + Video Editing

Digital video cameras and digital SLR’s are capable of capturing extremely high-resolution imagery. However, these stunning high-definition video files consume huge amounts of hard drive space, and require drives capable of transferring data at very high rates. A full hard drive can result in a complete work-stoppage, and slow data transfer rates will severely limit the resolution available for editing. Drobo solves both of these problems with the ability to increase drive capacity on-the-fly and FireWire 800, iSCSI, and eSATA* interfaces . So, you’ll never run out of space and always have the speed to get the job done.

*As larger hard drives become available.

Drobo S

Drobo Elite

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Nov 23

Drobo S

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Meet the new primary and backup storage solution that’s perfect for creative professionals and small businesses with “set it and forget it” storage needs. The safe, expandable Drobo® S offers blazingly fast eSATA, and the best data storage experience ever. In addition to eSATA, Drobo S features enhanced FireWire 800 performance and USB 2.0 connectivity. It is a self-managing, self-healing solution ideal for safely storing large files and rapidly growing data.

Built on award-winning BeyondRAID™ technology with single or dual-drive redundancy, Drobo S protects your data without any user interaction, even in the event of multiple drive failures. It can hold up to five hot-swappable drives, for on-the-fly drive capacity expansion with zero downtime.

Up to 5 Drives of Instant Expansion to 10TB and Beyond
Grow your storage to meet with your data capacity needs with minimal effort. To add capacity, simply insert a new hard drive or replace your smallest drive with a larger one, even when all five drive bays are full. Unlike traditional RAID systems, the BeyondRAID technology found in Drobo S enables you to mix and match capacities, drive brands, and speeds. This allows for continuous expansion as drive capacities grow and larger drives become available. With Drobo S, expansion is automatic, instantaneous, and access to data is always maintained.

Protection from Two Drive Failures
Enable the dual-drive redundancy option to protect your data from failure of up to TWO hard drives. It’s all done with a single click, and without ever losing access to your data. Running out of space? Switch back to single-drive redundancy. Unlike moving between traditional RAID 5 and RAID 6, there’s no need to reformat or migrate data off of Drobo, potentially saving you hours or days.

Self-Healing Technology
With the self-healing technology now incorporated into Drobo S, your data is safer than ever. Even when sitting idle, the Drobo will continually examine the blocks and sectors on every disk, flagging questionable areas. This preemptive “scrubbing” helps ensure your data is being written only to the healthy areas of your drives, and that your data is always safe. And if a drive fails, Drobo S will strive to keep your data in the safest state possible, utilizing the available space on the remaining healthy drives.

Windows, Mac, or Linux
Drobo S connects to Windows, Mac and Linux¹ systems and supports NTFS, HFS Plus, EXT3, and FAT32 file formats. Regardless of operating system, everyone can take advantage of simple, powerful, complete Drobo data protection.

Product Specifications

Host Interface:
eSATA, FireWire 800 (FireWire 400 compatible) and USB 2.0
Drives:
Accommodates from one to five 3.5” SATA I / SATA II hard drives of any manufacturer, capacity, spindle speed, and/or cache¹. No carriers or tools required.

Power:
Idle system (standby, drives off) = 12 watts
Typical busy system (four drives) = 56 watts

Box Contents:
Drobo S
External power supply (100v-240v) with U.S. 110v power cord
eSATA cable
FireWire 800 cable
USB 2.0 cable
User Guide and Quick Start Card (printed)
Drobo Resource CD with Drobo Dashboard application, help files, and electronic documentation

Accoustics

Normal operation: 31.8 dB²

Capacity
Continuously upgradeable with larger and faster drives. Use our capacity calculator to estimate your storage in various configurations.

Dimensions

	Width	Height	Length
Inches	5.9	7.3	10.3
mm	150.3	185.4	262.3

Weight: 8lbs (without hard drives or packaging)

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

Certification: Emissions
FCC Class B, Underwriters Laboratories
(United States, Canada)

Security
Kensington lock port
(lock not included)

Warranty
One (1) year warranty in the US, two (2) year warranty
in the EU (as provided by EU law), or as provided by
local law.

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Nov 23

Drobo Elite

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DroboElite

DroboElite™ offers the best data storage experience ever for small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) and departments looking to consolidate storage across multiple servers. As the most powerful and flexible Drobo platform engineered to date, DroboElite redefines storage economics by delivering advanced features and performance usually reserved for more expensive solutions. Built on the award-winning BeyondRAID™ technology, DroboElite provides enterprise-level data safety and unprecedented expandability in a virtualized architecture that is both self-managing and self-healing. Dual iSCSI ports and significant performance enhancements deliver best-in-class performance ideal for consolidating storage or adding capacity to both virtualized and non-virtualized computing environments.

Multi-Host Connectivity
Have multiple servers that need storage? No problem. The DroboElite connects seamlessly to your existing TCP/IP network and utilizes the industry-standard iSCSI protocol to provide simple, consolidated storage for your servers.

Up to 8 Disks of Instant Expansion to 16TB and Beyond
Grow your storage to meet your data capacity needs with minimal effort. To add capacity, simply insert a new hard drive or replace your smallest drive with a larger one, even when all eight-drive bays are full. Unlike traditional RAID systems, the BeyondRAID technology found on DroboElite enables you to mix and match capacities, drive brands and speeds. This allows for continuous expansion as drive capacities grow. With DroboElite, expansion is automatic, instantaneous and access to data is always maintained.

No Headache Dual-Drive Redundancy
Enable the dual-drive redundancy option to protect against the simultaneous failure of up to two hard drives. It’s all done with a single click, without ever losing access to your data. Running out of space? You can click to switch back to single drive redundancy. Unlike moving between traditional RAID 5 and RAID 6, there’s no need to reformat or migrate data off of the array, potentially saving you hours or days of downtime.

Dual High-Speed iSCSI Interfaces
Unfamiliar with iSCSI? It’s an industry- standard, high performance protocol that has become extremely popular with businesses and individuals who demand high data storage throughput, but it can often be complex to manage. DroboElite changes that by introducing zero- click iSCSI connection creation with optional LUN-level CHAP authentication for both Windows and Mac OS X.

Learn more about DroboElite and iSCSI

The Virtues of Smart Volumes™
Create new volumes in seconds and manage up to 255 x 16TB volumes over time with ease. The innovative and timesaving Smart Volume management technology integrated into DroboElite allows volumes to pull storage from the common pool of drives rather than a specific physical drive allocation, eliminating the need to manage capacity at the volume level. Smart Volumes are also data aware, allowing deleted data blocks to be returned to the common pool and ensuring that volumes remain as efficient as possible over time.

Simplify Your VMware Environment
Storage is an integral part of a successful virtualization strategy. DroboElite has been tested for use with VMware to eliminate risk from your storage decision and help accelerate deployment of your virtual server environment.

Rack Mount Ready, Desktop Quiet
DroboElite is equally at home in a rack mount environment as it is on your desktop. Dual smart fans automatically manage their speeds to optimize both cooling and minimize operating noise.

What is BeyondRAID?
BeyondRAID leverages the same underlying data protection methodologies as traditional RAID, including mirroring and striping with parity; however, BeyondRAID applies these algorithms on top of a robust and flexible storage virtualization platform. This allows for the removal of the limitations and drawbacks normally associated with RAID.

Key benefits of BeyondRAID include:

Data protection against hard disk failure
Instant capacity expansion without downtime
Self-management
Automatic healing

DroboElite Product Specifications

Disk Interface

Eight-bay capacity

3.5″ SATA I or SATA II hard disk drives

No carriers required

Mix and match capacities, disk brands and speeds¹

DroboElite Size


	Width	Height	Length
Inches	12.17	5.46	14.1
mm	309.1	138.7	358.1

Weight: 16lbs 3ozs (without hard drives or packaging)
3U for a standard 19″ rack

Host Interface

iSCSI (utilizes Gigabit Ethernet)²

High Speed USB 2.0

Accoustics³
Normal operation: 30.4 dB

Box Contents
DroboElite
6′ USB 2.0 cable
Two 6′ Ethernet cables
6′ power cord
User Guide and Quick Start Instructions
Resource CD includes:
Drobo Dashboard application
Help files
Electronic Documentation

Sep 13

Drobo Pro

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DroboPro, the first business class storage device that manages itself! DroboPro delivers both enterprise-level data safety and unprecedented expandability, featuring single and dual disk redundancy combined with instant capacity expansion!

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Leveraging the revolutionary BeyondRAID™ virtualized storage platform, and the peace of mind that comes with every Drobo product, DroboPro offers unparalleled features including:

Instant capacity expansion across up to eight (8) hard drives

Protection from one or two hard drive failures

Create up to 16×16TB Smart Volumes™ with a click of a button

iSCSI (Gigabit Ethernet), FireWire 800 and USB 2.0

Rack mount ready, desktop quiet