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Data Robotics Drobo (4-Bay ) Storage Robot Enclosure - USB 2.0, FireWire 800, FireWire 400 (Hard Drives Not Included)
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Data Robotics Drobo (4-Bay ) Storage Robot Enclosure
Meet your new primary storage, the second generation of the safe, expandable
Drobo™ storage robot. It’s so simple anyone can use it, yet powerful enough
for business. Drobo plugs into Mac, PC and Linux systems for redundant data
protection without the complexities of RAID. Dynamically expand storage any
time; Drobo holds up to 16TB in four drive bays using any combination of 3.5"
SATA drives. It comes with FireWire 800 and USB 2.0, so you get the data protection
you need with the speed and interface you want.
Drobo is perfect for both primary and backup
storage of large media and productivity files
such as video, photos, music, audio, documents,
and spreadsheets. It’s ideal for small business
owners, creative professionals, graphic
designers, photographers, video editors,
educators, and home storage.
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Redundant Protection, no Headaches
Drobo provides the redundant protection of much more expensive storage,
in a format you don’t have to configure or manage. We call this BeyondRAID™
technology. You’ll call it peace of mind. |
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Incomparable exandability
With Drobo, buy just the storage you need now and change it as your data
grows. Mix n’ match drive brands, capacities and speeds. Replace your
smallest drive with a larger one and immediately use the new capacity
in a matter of seconds, not hours! Hot swap up to 16TB on a single volume
as drive sizes grow larger. Drobo creates one large storage pool. Dive
in and eliminate the need for multiple external storage drives and devices.
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Plug in Peace of Mind
Just plug in Drobo and your data protection is all set up. Add disks at
any time for additional protected capacity. Drobo can even solve problems
by itself. Lights on the front tell you what’s happening – if you can
read a traffic light, you’re already a Drobo expert.
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Speed demon: FireWire 800 and USB 2.0
Need speed? With both FireWire 800 and enhanced USB 2.0, safety and quick
access go hand in hand with Drobo. |
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Windows, Mac, Linux
Drobo connects to Windows, Mac, and Linux systems and supports NTFS, HFS
Plus, EXT3, and FAT32 file formats. Everyone can take advantage of simple,
powerful, complete Drobo data protection. |
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Specifications
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Detailed Features
A Closer Look
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Latest Owner Reviews
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Oct 25, 2008 |
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| The device does not work - period. It loses data, disconnects randomly from the computer and, generally makes your life a living hell. Tech support respond time is measured in DAYS. Now trying to return the two that I purchased. I'm not going to hold my breath given the poor response from them so far. |
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What You Should Know
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Even The Best Hard Drives Die.
Do You Back Up?
Businesses of all sizes
are witnessing an explosion in the volume of data they hold. Whether it is
the result of the Internet, email, or increasingly heavy and media-rich
application software, there is a massive growth in the volume of data all
around. Conservative estimates place data growth at approximately 80% per
year. Data is increasingly being recognized as one of the real assets of a
company, and losing this data would cause severe damage to any organization.
Data loss can be very costly, particularly for
organizations in the small and medium business (SMB) market where the
difference between survival and closure can rest on the ability to recover
from a disaster. At the very least, critical data loss will have a financial
impact on companies of all sizes:
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Time to re-create 20 MB |
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19 days |
$17,000 |
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Accounting |
21 days |
$19,000 |
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Engineering |
42 days |
$98,000 |
The financial impact on a company is a combination
of loss of business, low productivity, legal action, and the cost of
re-creating data. A study showed that the cost of re-creating just 20 MB of
data can be extensive!
Your best solution, is an external drive as a
backup. You can have multiple drives, and it is much easier restore
from a portable external drive, as opposed to CDs or DVDs.
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Why Do I Have
Less Drive Space?
Your hard drive may show less space than the published specifications due to
a number of reasons.
- The way size is calculated and
displayed.
- Any "Partitions" on the disk will
change the total in a specific partition.
- Hidden files and folders decrease
available space.
- Compression increases the apparent
size, but not the physical size.
- Drives larger than the OS or Drivers
natively supports.
 First, the definition of a megabytes
(or gigabytes) is a unit of data storage capacity measured in 1,048,576
bytes (or 1024KB). The larger the numbers, the more apparent the size
difference will be when listing the size as megabytes (or gigabytes) versus
bytes. Actually, both numbers are correct. The noticeable difference is due
to the 1024KB definition of a megabyte. This is why a 95.3GB hard drive can
also be listed as having 102 billion bytes of total space. Just think
of it as "round off" In the screen shot at right:
The first number is the total number of bytes,
the second number is based on the number of megabytes or gigabytes.
Second, some computers have a
non-DOS hard drive partition that is used for features such as Save to Disk,
Hibernation, or Recovery. This partition is not normally reported by the
operating system, although it can be viewed using a disk partition utility.
This is very common on desktops and laptops. NOTE:
Partition information will be created or
formatted automatically during initial system setup and a system recovery.
Third, by default, all system files
are hidden and cannot be seen. This may adversely affect the reporting of
available hard drive space. You can set your Folder Options so you view
system and hidden files and folders, but do be careful as changes to system
files can adversely affect your system.
Fourth, if you turn on Compression
for a drive, it will increase reported free space and used space, but since
compression is based upon the actual contents, this number is not fixed, but
will change as files are added or changed.
Fifth, older operating systems did
not support some of today's larger drives, so the total space reported may
be much smaller than the drive specifications.
It is also worth noting that bad sectors
are corrected by your operating system and can change the total drive space,
free space, or used space as well.
So as long as a drive is reporting a value
approximately close to the specification value, you can be comfortable that
you received the right drive and that you are getting to correct data
storage. Of course, tuning of your drive's partitions and options can
yield optimal values, but this is not something for the average user to
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Limited Warranty
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This Product Has Limited Exchange Privileges.For support on this product, please contact Data Robotics at 866-426-4280. Defective exchanges for identical item within 30 days of purchase permitted on this product with prior manufacturer approval. |
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Manufactured by:
Data Robotics
Mfg Part No:
DR04DD10
UPC No:
094922903457
Box Size:
( Length:
16, Width:
11, Depth:
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Shipping Weight:
11.8000 pound(s)
Limited Warranty:
12 months parts;
12 months labor
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address below and requesting the warranty for item number:
D162-1010
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