Product Description:
The revolutionary Drobo FS was designed with one purpose in mind: to deliver the best file sharing experience ever. From the moment you plug it in and see it instantly appear on your desktop, you?ll know there?s nothing like it. The all-in-one Drobo FS is perfect for any connected home, home office, or small office environment needing a simple, safe device for sharing and backing up files over the network.
Like all Drobo storage products, Drobo FS provides redundant data protection without the complexities of RAID. Just plug in your Drobo FS, and your data protection is all set up with no configuration required. We call this BeyondRAID technology. You?ll call it peace of mind.
Share your data on a Gigabit Ethernet Network
Drobo FS connects directly to a Gigabit Ethernet network to make sharing your data easy. Just plug it into any switch or wireless router and you are ready to go.
Supports the Computer of Your Choice
Connect to your Drobo FS using any Windows, Mac, or UNIX/Linux computer. Whatever system you have, it's likely you'll be able to connect to it over your network quickly and easily.
Easy Expansion to 10TB and Beyond
Drobo FS holds up to five drives allowing you to effortlessly grow your storage to meet your data capacity needs. To add more space, simply insert a new hard drive or replace your smallest drive with a larger one, even when all drive bays are full.
And unlike traditional RAID systems, the BeyondRAID technology in Drobo FS enables you to mix and match drive capacities, brands and speeds. This unprecedented flexibility allows for continuous expansion as available hard drive capacities increase. With Drobo FS, expansion is automatic, instantaneous and access to data is always maintained.
Protection from up to Two Drive Failures
Enable the dual-drive redundancy option to protect your data from failure of up to two hard drives. It's all done with a single-click and you never lose access to your data. Running out of space? No problem. Switch back to single-drive redundancy at any time. Unlike moving between traditional RAID levels, there?s no need to reformat or migrate data off of the Drobo FS ? potentially saving you hours or days of downtime.
Self-Healing Technology
With the self-healing technology incorporated into Drobo FS, your data is safer than ever. When sitting idle, Drobo FS will proactively examine the blocks and sectors on every drive, flagging questionable areas. This preemptive "scrubbing" helps ensure your data is being written only to the healthy areas of your drives. When a drive fails, Drobo FS keeps your data in the safest state possible by moving your data to the available space on the remaining healthy drives.
Seamless Integration with Apple Time Machine
The Drobo FS enables network backup for Mac users at home, home office or small offices. The Drobo FS delivers the most seamless support for Apple Time Machine of any network storage system on the market today. Using Time Machine with Drobo FS is as easy as clicking one box in the Drobo Dashboard software, with no need for confusing, complex command line work.
Drobo FS supports DroboApps, an entire world of community-created and community-supported applications that can be run on the Linux-based operating system embedded in Drobo FS. What you do with them is up to you. Drobo FS is a computing platform that allows you to install the DroboApps you need. The available applications range from the simple and lightweight, to the complex and powerful.
With DroboApps, the world is your server.
Product Specifications:
Host Interface: 10/100/1000 Ethernet Port
Supported data transfer protocols: AFP and CIFS/SMB
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
Operating System Support
Windows 2008 Server
Windows 2003 Server
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7
Mac OS 10.5 or later
Linux
Certification: Emissions
FCC Class B, Underwriters Laboratories
(United States, Canada)
Security
Kensington lock port
(lock not included)
Warranty
One (1) year warranty in the US, two (2) year warranty in the EU
(as provided by EU law), or as provided by local law.
