The world's first storage robot.

Fully automated storage you don’t have to manage.

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 down- time, 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. – No tools, just insert drives into slots

No Headache Data Redundancy
Drobo utilizes a revolutionary storage technology that makes it simple for anyone to use, yet is powerful enough for business. Once you experience the power of Drobo, the idea of keeping multiple external drives or a RAID 5 array will seem as antiquated as that 28.8Kbps modem in the back of your closet.

Incomparable Expandability
Your library of data grows every moment. Now, your storage solution expands in seconds, too. Drobo holds up to four hard drives, can expand at any time, and supports up to 16TB on a single volume as disk sizes increase. Choose how big you want your Drobo today with any combination of drives capacities.

Speed Demon: FireWire 800 & USB 2.0
Why compromise? Safety and accessibility now go hand in hand. Experience Drobo with both FireWire 800 and USB 2.0. It’s the data protection and peace of mind you need with the performance and interface you want.

Hard Drives a la carte
Unlike other storage solutions, Drobo allows you to purchase as much or as little storage as you like up front. Since you can expand at any time, Drobo is the right solution for your budget.

Go Faster with FireWire 800. Vastly Improved USB 2.0.
With FireWire 800 alongside USB 2.0 and an upgraded core processor, Drobo is now the fastest product in its class. It is the perfect solution for both primary and backup storage of large media and productivity files such as video, photos, music, audio, and troves of documents and spreadsheets. In fact, even if you’re now using USB 2.0, the new Drobo is up to three times as fast its predecessor in typical usage.

Consumer Mindset, Enterprise Feature Set.
Drobo was designed to meet a stringent design requirement: Anyone should be able to use Drobo regardless of technical experience. It is ready to go out of the box and will always stay that way. That’s why Drobo is considered a storage robot—it does all the work of managing an enterprise-grade your storage system for you.

No Software or Drivers are Needed!
Drobo’s magic comes from the software that’s built into the hardware called BeyondRAID™ that you’ll never need to configure. Drobo does absolutely everything for you from “automagically” expanding capacity when you add a drive, to self-healing around drive failures and data errors. If you’re the geeky type, Drobo has an optional software utility, Drobo Dashboard, that shows you what Drobo is up to and adds advanced functionality if you desire it.

Drobo Product Specifications

Four Bay Disk Interface

• 3.5" 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

Capacity
Continuously upgradeable with larger and faster drives. Use the Drobolator to calculate the capacity and number of disks for your specific storage needs

Host Interface
FireWire 800
High Speed USB 2.0

Max Sustained Transfer Rate
FireWire 800: Up to 52MB/s reads & 34MB/s writes
USB 2.0: Up to 30MB/s reads & 24MB/s writes

Drobo's Size

• Width: 152.4mm (6.3 inches)
• Height: 160.0mm (6.3 inches)
• Length: 271.8mm (10.7 inches)

Power

• Idle system (standby, drives off) = 5 watts
• Typical idle system - idle, drive spin down mode (one drive) = 12 watts
• Typical busy system (four drives) = 40 watts

Box Content

• Drobo storage robot
• 6' USB 2.0 cable
• 6' FireWire 800 cable
• External power supply
• User Guide and Quick Start Instructions
• Drobo Resource CD includes:
  • Drobo Dashboard Software
  • Help files
  • How-to Videos
  • Electronic Documentation

Operating System Support

• Windows 2000 (Professional, Server, Advanced Server)
• Windows 2003 Server
• Windows XP (Home, Professional, Media Center Edition)
• Windows Vista (Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate)
• Apple OS-X 10.4 and later

File System Support

• Windows: NTFS
• Mac OS X: HFS+
• Cross-Platform: FAT32
• Linux: EXT3

Certification: Emissions
FCC Part 15 Class B and Safety: UL, cUL

System Management

• Automatic (No software required)
• Optional Drobo Dashboard Software Included

Security
Kensington lock port (lock not included)

Warranty
1 Year Limited Warranty