Introduction

Thank you for giving another Drobo® storage device a good home! We at Data Robotics, Inc., have been working since 2004 to make protecting,

Why Drobo?

The Drobo family of products (Drobo, Drobo S, Drobo FS, DroboPro™ and DroboElite™) provides effortless, safe and expandable storage. There are many different ways to store and protect digital content, but Drobo is the only fully automatic storage device that performs many data management tasks without user effort. Here’s what you can expect:

Fully automated data protection and management

• Drobo automatically configures itself for data protection so you don’t have to.
• When a drive fails, your data is still safe (and all drives do eventually fail).
• Drobo senses any corrupted data and ensures that you only access non-corrupt data.
• No downtime to add capacity. Just add a drive to an empty Data Bay, or replace a smaller drive with a larger one regardless of capacity, speed, or manufacturer.
• After a drive is installed, the new drive capacity is immediately available and protected.
• Drobo can act as one large drive, making it easier to find what you’ve stored on it.
• Drobo’s Data Bay indicator lights tell you everything you need to know!

Infinite expansion

• Upgrading capacity is as simple as adding ink to a printer.
• Mix ’n match any 3.5” (SATA) hard drives; no worrying about matching make, model or capacity of Drobo’s existing drives.
• Upgrade forever—just replace Drobo’s smallest drive with a larger capacity drive. No data migration or reconfiguration is required.

BeyondRAID™ storage technology

What does it mean to go BeyondRAID? Going beyond traditional RAID means leaving choices between striping and mirroring, limitations on expandability, drive sizing, and drive ordering behind. BeyondRAID™ technology is the next generation of storage that brings together safety, reliability, expandability, efficiency and of course ease-of-use. BeyondRAID can be adopted without any change in infrastructure, allowing you to maintain your current file system and operating system—eliminating the friction costs typically associated with moving to a new technology platform.

Standard RAID levels are full of compromises. Do you want striping or mirroring? A two-disk or four-disk RAID set? BeyondRAID is able to solve these issues because it is built on an advanced virtualization platform. If you already understand how RAID 0, 1, 5 or 6 operate(s), you understand the fundamentals of BeyondRAID since BeyondRAID relies on the same underlying algorithms.

Welcome to the world’s best storage experience.

Who is Data Robotics, Incorporated?

Data Robotics, Inc. was formed in 2004 in California’s Silicon Valley with a vision to take the pain out of storage management. Data Robotics, Inc. developed the technology inside Drobo for people who “have to” protect their valuable digital assets, but “hate to” – because it’s complex and time consuming. For those people, we created Drobo, the world’s first storage robot. It is a fully automated data storage system that provides the only truly effortless, safe and expandable storage solution. Unlike outdated technologies that emerged twenty plus years ago and the frustrating products on the market today, Drobo is an industry-changing product line that combines the advanced concepts of storage virtualization and cybernetics, to take the pain out of storage management.