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Used Drobo Gen 1 and Gen 2 RAID arrays are an excellent buy. Just make sure the limited USB2 (Gen 1, Gen 2) or Firewire (Gen 2) meet your needs. The arrays are not high speed on write, even for USB2. Drobo's claim to fame of simple storage management with extreme ease of upgrade or drive replacement works great! You can also register for the Drobo backup which has a client for Windows that works well and exploits the Microsoft shadow copy (VSS) and doesn't require you to use a Drobo as the backup storage. You may run the backup client on as many systems as you like. You will also find that whole disk packs are portable among Gen 1 and reportedly Gen 2 Drobos. So you can take the entire pack, however many disks you use, away from a Drobo and stick it in another one. See the drobo.com site for a complete migration list. Check out the usable space in this Drobolator tool to see how much space you can make available by sticking your SATA drives into a Drobo: http://www.drobo.com/storage-products/capacity-calculator/ Putting this behind a network gateway such as a Pogoplug or Tonidoplug works well to provide Cloud Storage for you on the go.Read full review
Drobo is the world’s best storage experience. This safe, expandable storage solution protects your data against a hard drive crash. Drobo’s built-in software automatically self-heals around drive failures and data errors and expands capacity dynamically when you add a drive. Start with two drives, grow to four, then upsize smaller drives to get Terabytes of protection. Add drives to Drobo at any time. There’s no down time, data migration or waiting to access new capacity. With nothing to configure or manage, Drobo is the ideal solution for primary storage as well as backup. Drobo holds up to four 3.5” SATA hard drives and allows you to mix and match drive capacities and speeds from any manufacturer. Drobo’s LEDs tells you how Drobo is doing and how much free capacity you have. If you’ve ever successfully navigated a traffic signal, you’re a certified Drobo expert. Drobo is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux. So, get rid of multiple external drives. Avoid the complexity of RAID. Attach Drobo storage robot to your system and let it manage your storage so you don’t have to. Just connect Drobo to your Mac or PC and you’re done! No software required. No RAID levels. No management or configuration. Drobo does everything for you.Read full review
This Drobo is a great product, reasonable price, and very useful to anyone that needs to keep their important data safe and quickly accessible. It's fast, reliable, and just as easy to use as advertised. The dashboard lets you know the details of the status of your data: space used, space available, space reserved for redundancy safety, etc. It's so much better to use than trying to manage the use of a bunch of seperate external hard drives that don't offer automated redundancy safety features should you have a hard drive failure. I call it the ultimate "All-in-one" primary external hard drive and backup solution. I highly recommend it.
I bought the unit as an additional back up. Had an Susie when adding a 3tb hd, as it did not read it, and ended up losing all data on the 2tb drive. . Updating software helped, Support was excellent
Does exactly what I expect it to do. This is my second one of these, one for work and this one if for home office use. Drobos have never done me wrong.