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Technical Details

Storage robot - manage your storage
Works with mixed capacities
Choose spindle speed or cache that fits your current storage needs
Continuously upgradeable with larger and faster drives
Use the Drobolator to calculate the capacity and number of disks for your specific storage needs

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Product details

Item Weight: 9 Kg
Boxed-product Weight: 7 Kg
Delivery Destinations: Visit the Delivery Destinations Help page to see where this item can be delivered.
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Item model number: DRO4DD50
ASIN: B001CSZMRK
Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 21 Jul 2008

Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,407 in Electronics & Photo (See Bestsellers in Electronics & Photo)

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Product Description

Manufacturer's Description

Drobo is the world's first storage robot. Data Robotics. Get rid of multiple external drives. Avoid the complexity of RAID. Attach a Drobo storage robot to your system and let it manage your storage so you don't have to. No software required. No RAID levels. No management or configuration. Drobo does everything for you.

Your library of data grows every moment now, your storage solution expands in seconds. 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. 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.

Box Contents

Drobo storage robot

6 foot USB 2.0 cable

6 foot FireWire 800 cable

External power supply UK AC power cord

User Guide and Quick

Start Instructions

Drobo Resource CD includes:Drobo Dashboard Software (optional)

Help files

Electronic Documentation

Operating System Support Windows 2000 (Professional, Server, Advanced Server) Windows 2003 Server Windows XP (Home, Professional, Media Center Edition)

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4.4 out of 5 stars (14 customer reviews)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Drobo FW800 & USB2.0 - set BIOS on your PC to "legacy usb support" DISABLED, 25 Mar 2009

By	Ian Derrick (UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Drobo delivered in very good time but actually abandoned by Home Delivery Network on our rear doorstep in the rain, in full view of any passing stranger (we live on a corner with rear driveway facing the back door) - not the best delivery solution in the world for �400 worth of delicate electronics! I'm surprised it wasn't stolen!
After a couple of days drying out, drobo installed fine and worked nicely. Until, that is, I performed a restart on the PC, at which point the PC repeatedly hung during startup if the Drobo remained connected to it via its usb cable. After a couple of red-herrings involving firmware on the inserted drives (Segate 1.5TB with CC1H firmware are not a problem) eventually found a ref buried deep in the Drobo on-line knowledge-base, suggesting that the BIOS on the PC should have "legacy usb support" DISABLED. On changing my BIOS from its default AUTO setting, all my problems went away and I'm now extremely happy with this product. I do feel it would be beneficial for the manufacturer to make some reference to this potential issue in its quick setup guide though, as this could have been a far more stress-Drobo - 4 Bay FW800 & USB 2.0 Storage Arrayfree installation than it actually was.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Unreliable with TB hard disks and very large files, 2 Feb 2009

By	I. Ting "JT" (UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought one of these when they first appeared on the promise that they are expandable without down time. Filled it with 2x500GB Samsung drives and it performed admirably, if a tad slow. I used it to back up machines and the backup files got fairly big and soon it filled up. I added 2 more 500GB drives and was pleasantly surprised when the extra capacity appeared within a few minutes without much fuss. The backup files got bigger ( >60GB each ) and then the problems started: It would start hanging from time to time and needed a power cycle each time to revive. One each power restart, the lights on all the drives would flash amber for several hours, with the warning message that the files are not protected. The problem grew slightly worse as the files got bigger and soon it had reach capacity. I started replacing the 500GB with 1 TB drives, and this was an ardously long process. The drives can only be replaced one at the time and each time, it flashed amber for several days before another drive can be replaced. Eventually all 4 drives were replaced and the backing up restarted in earnest and was met with a resounding failure. The backup files have now reach >100GB and not a single backup session was successful. Each time it would hang after several hours of copying, and after each power cycle, it would flash amber for a couple of days before turning green again. Tech support's only suggestions were always to either reformat the drive or update the firmware which were done every time to no avail. By now the drive was out of warranty, and stupidly, I bought a second one to see if the first one was unique. Sadly, the second one is exactly the same. Thus, the conclusion is to avoid it like the plague if you are intending to fill it with terabyte drives and copy very large files. I now have a proper NAS device with 4 TB drives for a little more money and it works like a dream. The only down side is that I can't upgrade the space without downtime like the Drobo promised.

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19 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic, 24 Oct 2008

By	J. Conway (UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

What can I say, "it does what it says on the tin". Backup is not the most exciting thing we can do with our computers but I think its essential. The Drobo will keep your precious data safe and sound. The unit is very quiet and looks great. The best compliment I can give to the Drobo is, I don't even know its there. If you have data then you need to back it up. Do yourself a favor and Get a Drobo.

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