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Drobo S offers the best data storage experience ever for creative professionals and small businesses with set it and forget it storage needs. Featuring five drive capacity with single or dual drive redundancy, a triple interface that includes USB 3.0, and the ability continually add capacity as larger drives become available, Drobo S is ideal for addressing growing storage requirements in performance demanding environments.
Built on award winning BeyondRAID technology with single or dual drive redundancy, Drobo S protects your data without any user interaction, even in the event of multiple drive failures. It can hold up to five hot swappable drives, for on the fly drive capacity expansion with zero downtime.
The new Drobo S is the most expandable USB 3.0 product available today, with industry first support for multiple storage volumes that provide capacity up to 32TB and beyond. Only BeyondRAID allows you to instantly expand your capacity by simply adding a drive or replacing the smallest drive with a larger one, even when all five drive bays are full. The unique ability to mix and match drive capacities, brands, and speeds ensures you will be able to take advantage of larger drives as they become available.
Protection from Two Drive Failures
Enable the dual-drive redundancy option to protect your data from failure of up to TWO hard drives. Its all done with a single click, and without ever losing access to your data. Running out of space? Switch back to single-drive redundancy. Unlike moving between traditional RAID 5 and RAID 6, theres no need to reformat or migrate data off of Drobo, potentially saving you hours or days.
Self-Healing Technology
With the self-healing technology now incorporated into Drobo S, your data is safer than ever. Even when sitting idle, the Drobo will continually examine the blocks and sectors on every disk, flagging questionable areas. This preemptive scrubbing helps ensure your data is being written only to the healthy areas of your drives, and that your data is always safe. And if a drive fails, Drobo S will strive to keep your data in the safest state possible, utilizing the available space on the remaining healthy drives.
Windows, Mac, or Linux
Drobo S connects to Windows, Mac and Linux* systems and supports NTFS, HFS Plus, EXT3, and FAT32 file formats. Regardless of operating system, everyone can take advantage of simple, powerful, complete Drobo data protection.
Host Interface:
eSATA, FireWire 800 (FireWire 400 compatible), and USB 3.0
Drives:
Accommodates from one to five 3.5 SATA I / SATA II hard drives of any manufacturer, capacity, spindle speed, and/or cache. No carriers or tools required.
Power:
Idle system (standby, drives off) = 12 watts
Typical busy system (four drives) = 56 watts
Box Contents:
Drobo S
External power supply (100v-240v) with U.S. 110v power cord
eSATA cable
FireWire 800 cable
USB 3.0 cable
User Guide and Quick Start Card (printed)
Drobo Resource CD with Drobo Dashboard application, help files, and electronic documentation
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