Introducing the new Drobo S …
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This new backup storage solution looks set to revolutionise the way that creative professionals and small businesses organise their backups. Drobo is unique as the system completely manages itself and checks the health of all the drives in the system.
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.
The Drobo website also points out another one of the fantastic new features available as you can now “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. Unlike moving between traditional RAID 5 and RAID 6, there’s no need to reformat or migrate data off of Drobo, potentially saving you hours or days.” This is an excellent option for small businesses as mission critical data can be preserved without the loss of flexibility that come with more rigid backup solutions – and certainly without the extra cost!
The Drobo S now has 5 storage bays and with the current 2TB SATA drives that are available it can be configured up to 10TB – with connectivity available via eSATA, Firewire 800 or USB 2.0 the new Drobo S has just been moved to the top of my want list.
For more information on the Drobo S please see the Drobo Website