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Drobo S - 5 bay storage array eSATA USB 3.0

  • SKU: 206805
  • , EAN: 0094922043610
  • , UPC: 094922043610
  • , Mfr: DRDR4A31
  • , Brand: Drobo

  • £399.99

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Drobo S - 5 bay storage array eSATA USB 3.0 Features

Say hello to the world's most advanced USB 3.0 array. In addition to blazing fast transfer speeds for creative professionals and small businesses, the all-new Drobo S features USB 3.0 technology that delivers the most expandable, future-proof solution available today. Drobo S offers an unbeatable combination of automated protection, instant and perpetual expansion, and high-performance making it ideal for all of your primary and backup storage needs.

Built on award-winning BeyondRAIDTM 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.

5-bay Drobo SYour Personal Speed Demon: USB 3.0, eSATA, FireWire 800 Have a need for speed? With the new USB 3.0 interface on the Drobo S, data transfer is up to 50% faster than FireWire 800. USB 3.0 offers backward compatibility with all existing USB 2.0 systems, and the Drobo S features a triple interface with eSATA and FireWire 800 to ensure you'll have a high-performance connection for virtually any system.

World's Most Expandable USB 3.0 Array

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. It's all done with a single click, and without ever losing access to your data. Running out of space? Switch back to single-drive redundancy at any time. Unlike moving between traditional RAID 5 and RAID 6, there's no need to reformat or migrate data off of Drobo S, potentially saving you hours or days of downtime.

Self-Healing Technology

With the self-healing technology now incorporated into Drobo S, your data is safer than ever. Even when sitting idle, Drobo S will continually 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, and that your data is always safe. Even if a drive fails, Drobo S keeps your data in the safest state possible, utilizing the available space on the remaining healthy drives.

Windows, Mac, Linux

Drobo S connects to Windows, Mac, and Linux2 systems and supports NTFS, HFS+, EXT3, and FAT32 file formats. Everyone can take advantage of simple, powerful, complete BeyondRAID data protection.

  • Shipping Weight: 6.10kg

User Reviews

  • by Tim N
  • 30 March 2012

Great Product

I already have the Drobo FS, dog slow, very disappointing product but the Drobo S attached with FW 800 is great, fast and reliable. I have a load of spare disks lying around after upgrading the FS to 3TB drives so thought a new DAS would make good use of them and at the same time give me quicker file transfer time, which it does.

  • by user1126171
  • 12 March 2012

Drobo S, 1st class, easy to use and configure

i'm very pleased with this. easy to use, configure and now have now more worries of dataloss and have got rid of loads of external drives and cables and chargers too. can now easily add and upgrade storage on the fly.

  • by Anonymous
  • 16 November 2010

Drobo 4 bay External

Unit does what it say's on the tin! I have found software issues but since firmware upgrade no problem. I have also experienced two drive fails and not lost any Data. What more do you need a backup solution for?

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Reproduce contenidos??

by ooNaNoo on 23 November 2010 at 11:24

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by ooNaNoo
on Tue Nov 23, 2010 11:24 AM

This is not a NAS

by SnapperNZ on 05 May 2010 at 23:09

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by SnapperNZ
on Wed May 5, 2010 11:09 PM

Will it work with 2 drives?

by PhilHibbs on 18 March 2010 at 15:24

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by PhilHibbs
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Technical Details

  • Creative pros, photographers, videographers, small office/home office
  • 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