http://www.drobo.com Breaking News from Drobo http://www.drobo.com/news/press-releases/2013/press_release_2013_05_09.php Drobo today announced that it is experiencing accelerated adoption among video professionals, film producers and multimedia production studios who require fast, reliable, intuitive and scalable storage solutions for a rapidly evolving industry. Press Release Thu, 9 May 2013 7:00:00 AM EST http://www.storage-switzerland.com/Blog/Entries/2013/5/1_Storage_For_The_Small_SMB_-_Drobo_5D_Test_Drive.html At Storage Switzerland we cover storage solutions for the enterprise all they way down to the smallest of businesses and even prosumer solutions. Many “prosumers” are actually very small businesses. They have needs too demanding for most prosumer storage solutions but the entry level SMB storage solutions are out of their budget. These businesses may find the Drobo 5D or 5N to be an ideal solution. Review Wed, 1 May 2013 7:00:00 AM EST http://www.drobo.com/news/press-releases/2013/press_release_2013_04_18.php Drobo, makers of award-winning data storage products for businesses and professionals, today announced that Music Choice®, the multi-platform video and music network delivering music to millions of homes nationwide, has leveraged Drobo’s B1200i series to back up and protect more than 200 Terabytes of audio and video content so that it can better keep pace with the growing demand for its music while ensuring high availability and data protection. Press Release Thu, 18 Apr 2013 7:00:00 AM EST http://www.macsources.com/drobo-5n-review/ I’ve been a loyal Data Robotics customer since the original USB Drobo. I’ve seen way to many hard drive failures from my time repairing computers to not have a back-up. In fact, I remember losing 500 GB of data on an external Seagate drive I was using as my main source of storage. I learned about the Drobo not too much longer after deciding that my external should be used as paperweight. I bought my first Drobo in 2009 and have been an extreme fan ever since. Review Tue, 16 Apr 2013 7:00:00 AM EST http://www.drobo.com/news/press-releases/2013/press_release_2013_03_28.php Drobo, makers of award-winning data storage products for businesses and professionals, today announced a new software application platform that enables enhanced mobile and cloud-connect capabilities for Drobo 5N customers. The first two applications to be integrated include Copy™, a cloud-based file storage, syncing and sharing platform where users can easily store, protect and share data, and Plex, the industry’s leading media server for managing and serving digital media (video, music and photos) to nearly any device (TV, PC, or mobile). The company also announced availability of a development kit by which other leading application developers will be able to further extend the power and simplicity of its new networked storage device for remote access/sharing, media streaming, and cloud integration. Thu, 28 Mar 2013 7:00:00 AM EST http://macgroup.org/blog/2013/03/11/mountain-lion-server-is-so-easy/ I’ve been a user of Apple’s Server OS’s since the early days of AppleShare IP (Pre OS X). Of course once Mac OS X was out and solid I migrated my AppleShare IP server to Mac OS X Server. Mac OS X Server was always a separate OS purchase and usually a separate install. I have a Mac Mini Server at home that is still running Mac OS X Server 10.6.8. As Apple moved away from their Server business (ie. dropping XServe products) Mac OS X Server also seemed to offer less and less features. Since my current server did absolutely everything I needed I never saw a reason to go through an upgrade process to 10.7 or 10.8. I will probably keep that Mac on OS X Server 10.6 until it dies. While the home server is working fine, I recently decided to bite the bullet and install a Mac server at my photography studio. I bought a regular Mac Mini with the 256GB SSD drive. I upgraded the RAM to 16GB from Other World Computing. I also added the New Drobo 5D via Thunderbolt and an mSATA card for faster reads. The Drobo 5D will serve as the main storage for all my photos and other files on this server. I already had an old 19″ Samsung LED display that I wasn’t using and an Apple Keyboard from a previous system. The only thing I needed was a cheap mouse. I bought one from Amazon. I didn’t need this setup to look pretty since it’s going in a closet. Wed, 13 Mar 2013 3:00:00 PM EST http://www.drobo.com/news/press-releases/2013/press_release_2013_03_13.php Drobo, makers of award-winning data storage products for businesses and professionals, today announced that in aggregate, its customers have purchased and deployed more than an exabyte of storage with Drobo systems. An exabyte is 1,000 petabytes, or 1 million terabytes, or 1 billion gigabytes or the equivalent of 245 million DVDs. Since the first Drobo system was introduced in mid-2007, the company has sold approximately 250,000 systems to creative professionals, prosumers, small businesses and enterprises. Wed, 13 Mar 2013 7:00:00 AM EST http://www.drobo.com/news/press-releases/2013/press_release_2013_02_20.php Barracuda Networks Inc., a leading provider of security and storage solutions, and Drobo, makers of award-winning data storage products for businesses and professionals, today announced a partnership that will bring cloud accessibility and storage to Drobo users. Wed, 20 Feb 2013 7:00:00 AM EST http://www.drobo.com/news/press-releases/2013/press_release_2013_01_16.php Drobo is now shipping the successor to the Drobo FS, the Drobo 5N. Wed, 16 Jan 2013 7:00:00 AM EST http://www.mactrast.com/2013/01/review-drobo-5d-thunderbolt-storage/ I've been a fan of Drobo for a few years now, and could not resist taking the opportunity to take the new Drobo 5D out for a spin. I did my best to it through it's paces to find out just what it is capable of – and whether it is truly worthy to be called a Drobo. To make a long story short, the answer is yes. Wed, 16 Jan 2013 7:00:00 AM EST http://photofocus.com/2013/01/14/drobo-mini-4-bay-storage-array-mini-review Scott Bourne, publisher and editor of PhotoFocus, reviews the Drobo Mini. Fri, 14 Dec 2012 7:00:00 AM EST http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/drobo-intros-5n-20tb-network-storage-device/ Drobo unveiled its Drobo 5N network attached storage system, or NAS, on Thursday. The system can hold up to 20 TB of storage as a combination of spinning hard drives and SSD, and offers native Time Machine support, too. Fri, 14 Dec 2012 8:53:00 PM EST http://www.fiercecio.com/techwatch/story/spotlight-drobo-5n-offers-gigabit-lan-ssd-caching/2012-12-14/ Drobo has launched the Drobo 5N five-bay storage appliance, which offers a Gigabit Ethernet port and drive bays for five 3.5-inch SATA hard disk drives. Fri, 14 Dec 2012 7:00:00 PM PST http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/12/13/five.bay.raid.case.boasts.msata.port.for.data.transfer.acceleration/ Storage drive provider Drobo today confirmed the rumorsfrom November and announced the Drobo 5N, the latest in the new lineup of high-performance storage systems. The Drobo 5N, a network-attached storage (NAS) device, provides increased performance and data protection enhancements for personal and professional users who want a file sharing and backup experience over a local area network. Fri, 13 Dec 2012 9:50:00 PM EST http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/12/drobo-5n/ Drobo has launched a new Drobo 5N NAS (Network Attached Storage device ) which has been designed for improved performance. As such, the new Drobo 5N features a dual core ARM processor and an mSata SSD that holds the OS and serves as a fast storage cache. This is a technique that has been frequently used in PCs, and even in hybrid drives where the most frequently accessed data is stored on the faster SSD for quick access. Fri, 13 Dec 2012 11:09:00 AM PST http://www.gearlive.com/news/article/drobo-5n-20tb-nas-q412/ If you were interested in the Drobo 5D, but wanted something a bit more network-friendly, the newly-announced Drobo 5N might just be your cup of tea. Built on the same architecture as the 5D, the Drobo 5N does away with the Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 ports and instead opts for a gigabit Ethernet port instead, giving all the devices on your local network access to the file storage array. Fri, 13 Dec 2012 10:41:00 AM PST http://www.slashgear.com/drobo-5n-adds-gigabit-ethernet-to-five-bay-backup-box-13256934// Drobo has revealed its latest storage and backup device, the Drobo 5N, targeting consumers looking for a new network-attached system with a burst of added speed. The 5N follows in the metaphorical footsteps of the Drobo 5D, announced back in June, with five regular drive bays and an extra nook for slotting in a chunk of solid-state storage to speed up data access, but throws in ethernet connectivity. Fri, 13 Dec 2012 7:00:00 AM PST http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/13/drobo-5n/ Tragically, we only learned about Drobo's new 5N after we'd hired a warehouse the size of an aircraft hanger to store our latest, 12 million page novel. If you want to avoid our mistake, then the company's latest NAS might end your own storage woes. The new hardware is part of the same family as the 5D and Drobo Mini, except this one ditches the Thunderbolt connection in favor of a single gigabit-ethernet port. Fri, 13 Dec 2012 7:00:00 AM PST http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/12/drobo-hits-the-turbo-boost-with-newly-launched-5n-home-nas/ California-based Drobo today announced the launch of their new Drobo 5N five-bay NAS product. Ars has looked at Drobo's products before, and though we've been impressed with their ease of use, one thing that's always bothered us about the little black boxes has been their speed: for all their slickness, "fast" isn't traditionally a word you'd use to describe Drobo's consumer offerings. Fri, 13 Dec 2012 6:37:00 AM PST http://news.softpedia.com/news/Drobo-5N-a-New-Sophisticated-NAS-of-Up-to-20TB-314488.shtml Drobo's network-attached storage devices are used extensively around the world, but the latest might just set a whole new standard for the product line, due to its design, capacity and performance. Fri, 13 Dec 2012 5:20:00 AM PST http://www.echannelline.com/usa/brief.cfm?item=19307 Drobo has announced the Drobo 5N, a new network-attached storage (NAS) device. Like the recently introduced Drobo Mini and Drobo 5D, the new Drobo 5N features Drobo's patented BeyondRAID and Data-Aware Tiering technologies, to deliver capacity, performance, and data protection that have traditionally been reserved for more expensive, enterprise-grade storage. Fri, 13 Dec 2012 7:00:00 AM EST http://www.drobo.com/news/press-releases/2012/press_release_2012_12_13.php Today Drobo announced availability of an ultra-modern networked storage solution ­ the 5-bay Drobo 5N. The Drobo 5N joins the thunderbolt-powered Drobo 5D and Drobo Mini in a family of vastly improved Drobos for professionals that all support higher performance, SSD technology, and even more sophisticated data protection. Thu, 12 Dec 2012 7:00:00 AM EST http://www.drobo.com/news/press-releases/2012/press_release_2012_12_13.php I have eagerly looked forward to the Thunderbolt-based Drobo 5D since it was first announced last July. This week, the good folks at Drobo offered to send me a 5D for a few days to review, and I’ve spent the last two days working with it. For my testing, I used a one-year old MacBook Pro with 8 GB of RAM and OS 10.8.2. Wed, 11 Dec 2012 7:00:00 AM EST http://www.drobo.com/news/press-releases/2012/press_release_2012_12_05.php Drobo today announced the results of a survey of 239 SMBs and departments in larger organizations about their current storage preferences and future expectations around protecting business data. The majority, 53 percent, chose hybrid storage with SSDs and auto-tiering to meet their primary business storage requirements; 46 percent revealed that they do not find public cloud storage a fit. Another 26 percent chose to back up select data to the cloud in conjunction with an on-premises backup solution. Wed, 05 Dec 2012 7:00:00 AM EST http://www.drobo.com/downloads/news/PPH1212-Pop-Awards-feature.pdf This superfast portable RAID drive is for serious shooters who can't risk losing their images while on the road. It uses both USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt connectors, and even comes with its own Thunderbolt cable. Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:00:00 AM PST http://www.zdnet.com/10-tech-gadgets-i-want-for-christmas-but-wont-buy-7000007879/ Call it a wish list, a want list or a nice-to-have list but I won't call anything on it an "I have it." Techno gadgetry beckons to me like sweet nectar for hummingbirds but I'll not sample even one of them for myself. ... I need some fast, local storage for backups and retrieval. Drobo makes some cool devices--the Mini, the 5D, the upcoming 5N, the S and others. All cool. Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:44:00 PM PST http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/lowe/2012/11/22/despite-initial-misgivings-i-like-my-drobo-mini-a-mini-review/ A few months ago, I was privileged to be one of the few that was allowed to see and hold one of Drobo’s new Mini storage devices, a Pro-level storage array designed to hold up to four 2.5” SATA disks. In addition, the Mini sports the ability to install an mSATA-based SSD that the Drobo software uses internally to accelerate the overall performance of the entire unit. Thu, 22 Nov 2012 7:54:00 PM CST http://mashable.com/2012/11/18/drobo-mini/ Want to back up your Mac or PC in the fastest and safest possible way? The Drobo Mini is scarcely larger than your hand, and with its Thunderbolt ports, it can back up boatloads of data at blazing speed. ... Using fast Thunderbolt ports is a great benefit of the Drobo Mini. Currently available on newer Macs (and only a tiny number of PCs so far), it transfers data almost at the same speed as the disk can crank it out. Sun, 18 Nov 2012 7:00:00 AM EDT http://www.zdnet.com/drobo-mini-for-video-on-the-go-gift-guide-2012-7000007206/ Last week I found that initial video storage on my MacBook Pro while on the road filled my secondary 256GB SSD which is only used for files of one kind or another. ... Enter the Thunderbolt and USB 3 enabled Drobo Mini which started shipping on October 26th at a sticker price of $649. The device can take up to 16TB of HDD in a 4x4GB array plus an mSATA SSD for extra speed. Sat, 10 Nov 2012 4:42:00 AM PST http://www.wired.com/business/2012/11/best-silicon-valley-tech-companies/ The history of Silicon Valley is the history of digital technology. To become a part of that history, do you go to work for one of the giants — Apple, Google, Intel, HP, Oracle, Facebook? Or do you catch a wave that hasn't crested yet? Longtime Silicon Valley venture capitalist turned Stanford faculty member and entrepreneur Andy Rachleff tells his students the best thing they can do is join a mid-size company that has proven its durability but is still growing rapidly. Mon, 5 Nov 2012 7:00:00 AM EDT http://www.drobo.com/news/press-releases/2012/press_release_2012_11_02.php Drobo, maker of award-winning data storage products for businesses and professionals, today announced the general availability and shipping of the Drobo Mini and Drobo 5D. The Drobo Mini and 5D products are the industry’s first storage arrays to include high-speed Thunderbolt connectivity, USB 3.0, automated tiering that supports solid state drives (SSDs), enhanced reliability features and true storage-array portability. The new products are designed to intelligently and seamlessly use high-performance SSDs with hard disk drives (HDDs) to rapidly accelerate workflows for creative professionals managing rich-media catalogs and Mac enthusiasts who need fast, high-capacity and portable storage. Fri, 2 Nov 2012 7:00:00 AM EDT http://www.drobo.com/news/press-releases/2012/press_release_2012_10_23.php Drobo, maker of award-winning data storage products for businesses and professionals, announced today that sales momentum is growing across the product line, fueled by an innovative new technology that accelerates the performance of its offerings for businesses and professionals. Driven by a relentless commitment to deliver sophisticated storage in the easiest, most affordable products, Drobo achieved significant growth milestones in the third quarter with both existing business products and recently introduced prosumer products. Tue, 23 Oct 2012 7:00:00 AM EDT http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/more-advice-on-home-data-storage/#postComment In my Times column Thursday, I wrote about the Drobo, a consumer version of the RAID storage units that are popular in corporate IT departments. The Drobo’s “Beyond RAID” technology gives you a lot more flexibility than regular RAID systems. Most of those require you to install multiple drives of the same type, speed and capacity. Most of those require reformatting and recopying if one of the drives fails. Most of those require serious technical skills to work. The Drobo, by contrast, is far more flexible and almost automatic. Wed, 18 Oct 2012 3:32:00 PM EDT http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/technology/personaltech/drobo-offers-raid-array-systems-to-back-up-top-heavy-files-review.html Hold up your right hand, look this page straight in the eye, and answer truthfully: At this moment, is your computer completely backed up? Did you answer “yes?” Congratulations, you statistical freak. Skip to the next article. If you’re like the huge majority, however, your backup is out of date or nonexistent. ...Boy, does Drobo have a suggestion for people like me. Wed, 17 Oct 2012 8:00:00 AM EDT http://www.drobo.com/news/press-releases/2012/press_release_2012_10_10.php Drobo today introduced several new models of its fast-growing family of business storage systems. Included in the group are both higher- and lower-end models of Drobo’s flagship product, the Drobo B1200i, which features a unique patent-pending tiering technology that allows customers to easily and affordably enjoy both the performance benefits of SSD technology and the capacity of traditional hard drives (HDD) in a single system. Wed, 10 Oct 2012 3:00:00 AM PDT http://www.stevieawards.com/pubs/awards/403_2654_21626.cfm At a banquet held in the Julia Morgan ballroom on the 15th floor of the Merchants Exchange Building in San Francisco, the Drobo B1200i won the 2012 American Business Awards Stevie Gold Award. The Stevie Awards were created to honor and generate public recognition of the achievements and positive contributions of organizations and business people worldwide. The 12-bay B1200i iSCSI SAN was recognized for its unique ability to deliver BOTH capacity AND performance with Data-Aware Tiering and SSD acceleration - with the ease-of-use characteristic of all Drobo storage arrays. Mon, 17 Sep 2012 7:30:00 PM PDT http://geekbeat.tv/drobomini The Drobo Mini is a portable version of the bigger Drobo. It has a smaller form factor, with a footprint just over 7″ square and about 2″ tall, and it uses laptop sized 2.5″ hard drives instead of the full sized 3.5″ ones found in the larger Drobo units. In addition to holding four 2.5″ drives, the Drobo Mini also includes a slot for one mSATA SSD which is used to really accelerate things. Tue, 28 Aug 2012 1:17:00 PM PDT http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/smb-tech/drobo-b1200i-update-combines-ssds-with-high-capacity-drives.html What I found impressive is related to how the performance enhancement was achieved without the need for complicated configuration and tweaks. In the best tradition of the company’s design philosophy, everything simply worked. ... Existing Drobo B1200i users can get the latest capabilities by downloading and installing the Drobo B1200i Firmware 1.1.1 — at no additional charge. Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:48:00 AM PDT http://www.rackspace.com/blog/drobo-small-box-big-storage/ “Drobo is a storage enclosure,” explains Mario Blandini, VP of Marketing with Drobo. “You put your hard drives into it. It makes all the hard drive turn into a large virtual drive and you get protection in case one of those fails. ... You want to protect yourself from a hard drive failure. With Drobo technology you can tolerate a drive failure, even two hard drive failures and never have to worry about your data.” Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:00:00 GMT http://www.drobo.com/news/press-releases/2012/press_release_2012_08_21.php Drobo, maker of award-winning data storage products for businesses and professionals, today announced a refresh of its flagship Drobo B1200i. The new B1200i SSD boosts performance by up to 300 percent over previous versions of the product, fueled by Drobo’s patent-pending automated data-tiering software and the unique hybrid use of solid state technology alongside traditional hard disk drives (SAS or SATA). Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:00:00 GMT http://www.drobo.com/news/press-releases/2012/press_release_2012_07_24.php Drobo, maker of award-winning data storage products for businesses and professionals, today announced that pre-orders will begin for the new Drobo Mini and 5D storage arrays. Pre-orders for the products can now be placed at select Drobo partners including Adorama, Amazon, B&H, CDW, J&R, Jensen IT, NCIX, PC Connection, PC Mall, Tiger Direct, and Virtual Graffiti. Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:00:00 GMT http://www.storagereview.com/drobo_b1200i_review If we know anything about Drobo and the new B1200i, their mission statement is to keep storage simple. The 12-bay SAN has historically supported up to 48TB of storage via SATA and SAS hard drives via Drobo's BeyondRAID automatic and instantaneous drive management system. Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:00:00 GMT http://www.pcworld.com/article/259593/five_thunderbolt_devices_for_lightningfast_data_transfers.html After a splashy introduction nearly a year-and-a-half ago, Intel's Thunderbolt interface has had a slow trek to PCs. Finally, however, Intel-based motherboards are appearing with this highly anticipated input/output interface onboard. And various options are here or are coming soon that will give you some choice in how you to implement Thunderbolt to maximum advantage. Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:00:00 GMT http://www.drobo.com/news/press-releases/2012/press_release_2012_07_10.php Drobo, maker of award-winning data storage products for businesses and professionals, today announced the results of an Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) Lab Validation Report*, which validates the advanced functionality and performance of the Drobo B1200i storage array for small and medium businesses (SMBs). Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:00:00 GMT http://www.zdnet.com/drobo-b1200i-review-7000000176/ Network storage doesn't come much easier than this, with very little expertise needed to manage the 12-bay Drobo B1200i. It's also fast, with three iSCSI ports, lots of redundancy and data-aware tiering — just like enterprise products costing a great deal more. Tue, 3 Jul 2012 14:00:00 GMT http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304782404577490682605709406.html#articleTabs%3Darticle BUYING A FAIL-SAFE hard drive is about as much fun as getting your teeth cleaned. Still, it's something everyone should do, and thankfully the new Drobo Mini, available for preorder next month, brings some pizazz and performance to an otherwise staid category. Sat, 30 Jun 2012 14:00:00 GMT http://www.drobo.com/news/press-releases/2012/press_release_2012_06_21.php Drobo, maker of award-winning data storage products for businesses and professionals, today announced a wide range of industry firsts with innovations in a new generation of storage devices for personal and professional users. Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:00:00 GMT http://www.drobo.com/news/press-releases/2012/press_release_2012_06_05.php Drobo, makers of award-winning data storage products for businesses and professionals, will be demonstrating future Drobo personal storage systems that are Thunderbolt-enabled in the Intel booth at COMPUTEX TAIPEI. The company also confirmed that it will be adding native Thunderbolt support for both Apple and Windows computers in future Drobo storage arrays. Tue, 5 Jun 2012 14:00:00 GMT