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List Price: $0.00
Our Price: $349.99
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Data Robotics
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Data Robotics
Color: Black
EAN: 0094922723819
Feature: Automatically protects your data with no setup or configuration. If the status lights are green, your data is safe.
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Data Robotics
Manufacturer: Data Robotics
Model: 900-00002-002
Publisher: Data Robotics
Studio: Data Robotics
Warranty: 1 year warranty
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Features
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Automatically protects your data with no setup or configuration. If the status lights are green, your data is safe.
Drobo The Worlds First Storage Robot
Drobo uses Data Robotics' SAFE (Secure, Automated, Flexible, Expandable) StorageTechnology
Makes storage manageable for anybody, regardless of computer knowledge or technical expertise.
Non-Stop Data Protection
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Editorial Reviews:
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As rich media (photos, video, movies, music) continues to devour your storage capacity, you need a solution that allows you to easily manage, protect, and scale storage for your PC or Mac. For you, Data Robotics has created Drobo, the first fully-automated storage robot to take the pain out of keeping your important digital content safe.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Drobo support could be better
Comment: For a product that claims high-availability Drobo needs better technical support. I waited for about 40 minutes to be escalated to the next level when one drive bay did not work. I called back the following morning to see why nobody had called me yet and was told that it normally takes 3-5 business days!!
Until Drobo can provide better support than this you should stay away from Drobo for any critical business need.
Can you afford to be offline for a week or more waiting for Data Robotics to call you back and fix an obviously faulty Drobo like mine?
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Summary: An excellent gadget
Comment: A great idea for keeping you precious data safe. A redundant type of real time backup system combined with real external HD for direct access.
Very satisfied with purchase
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Summary: Drobo is a Great Storage Device
Comment: I put in 4 TB of storage and this works great over USB 2.0. I was using it with a DroboShare but the transfer speeds were way too slow. Over USB they are adequate for 99% of my use. This is a great product and has been working great for me.
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Summary: Nicely conceived solidly executed . . .
Comment: The Drobo storage array is really very well done in providing hot-swapable, redundant drive space that recovers well from a single disk failure and lets you keep working. CAD and graphic designers with big libraries will find this useful. A Drobo is a great place to put your Solidworks PDM works drawing vault.
The Drobo is quite literally plug-and-play. For those who want to know more specifically which little hole to put their USB and power cables into there is a video which contains everything that you need to know and little that you don't.
Fit and finish is up to the highest standards in the industry. Latches are magnetic and self align. Corners are agreeably radiused catching neither cables nor the fingers that dust them. From this standpoint the execution is top notch.
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Summary: Deliciously simple, as advertised
Comment: The Drobo acts exactly as advertised. It's ridiculously simple, smarter-than-raid storage. I have it hooked up to a Mac Mini and use it for Time Machine backups over the network and for streaming video content to my Xbox 360 using Rivet. I also have a TV hooked up to the Mac Mini and use Front Row to watch video directly off the Drobo.
The only thing that has been disappointing is that when any of my other machines on the network are backing up using Time Machine, Quicktime stutters horribly when playing video off the Drobo. This isn't even HD video... we're talking very low quality. This isn't the Drobo's fault since I can play the same videos just fine in VLC by raising the playback buffer from 500ms to 3000ms. Unfortunately, there is no way to change this setting in Quicktime as far as I know, so Front Row on the Mac Mini is useless. The Xbox 360's default buffering is perfect, though, and video never stutters on it. It's silly that the Xbox 360 can play videos over the network served up by the Mac Mini better than the Mac Mini can play the videos directly.
In conclusion, the Drobo is a wonderful product and I hope when one of my hard drives fail, it continues to work as advertised.
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