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Drobo S: A Faster, Fatter Storage Robot With ESATA

Matt Buchanan — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:11:52 +0000

What’s the ‘S’ stand for in Drobo S? Speed. Uh, more speed. And more storage. Specifically, a fifth drive bay for more redundancy, faster FireWire and a new eSATA port. As always, it’s not cheap — $US800 sans drives.

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DroboPro Squeezes In 8 Networked Drives, 16TB of Data

Mark Wilson — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:05:54 +0000

The Drobo is a pretty renowned little NAS, making it easy to add networked storage to your home/office. The new DroboPro is a bigger, meaner NAS that’s equally simple to use.

The DroboPro, announced today for a barebones price of $US1300, connects to your network via iSCSI (ethernet), Firewire 800 or USB 2 and supports up to 8 3.5-inch SATA drives for a maximum of 16TB of storage (a number that will obviously grow as drive capacities do). It’s optionally rack mountable, and the whole system takes up only about a square foot of space that’s but 12cm tall.

It’s Vista/OS X compatible, and I almost wish that my tiny text files took up more space so that I could justify owning such a ridiculous amount of storage. [Drobo]

DroboApps Makes Your Drobo Smarter, More Useful

Jesus Diaz — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:45:00 +0000

If you have a Drobo, the storage robot that takes care of your hard drives so you don’t have to worry about reliability–or so they say–, you will be interested in the new applications for the platform. Called DroboApps, they will convert your Drobo into a web server, an iTunes media server, a BitTorrent client, or an FTP server. [Drobo via CrunchGear]