New DroboPro NAS has 8 drive bays for 16TB storage

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Drobo Pro, will change the landscape of reliable storage

Smart move Data Robotics, make a great idea behind Drobo even
better with Drobo Pro. This approach will serve well for the transition
from tape back up strategies to hard disks. The price point advantage
for the hard disk is favored over the costs of increasing tape thin film
data density, as well as being a linear storage media. I think the
genius behind the rack mountable Drobo Pro is providing the low
maintenance RAID (BeyondRAID), allowing the user to add any SATA
drive keeping the break price point (cost/GB) where it makes the best
sense for your budget, coupled this with performance I/O is a real
winner. The ability to use Firewire 800, USB 2.0 and now, iSCSI (use
the ethernet physical layer for fast data transfer) already available in
Microsoft Vista, and provided with this product for the Mac is a great
deal. I see this idea growing as fly-by media cost decreases and
reaches its end of life, move right on without a missing a beat using
solid state drives with the same form factor (Flash drives). I will keep
my eye on Data Robotics. Having the user decide on single or dual
parity RAID-like strategies with a click of a mouse, is a remarkable
achievement. I will recommend the Drobo Pro to my clients needing
cost effective, solid, reliable and easy to use backup strategy over
tape backups immediately.

Posted by: vinala@...   Posted on: 04/07/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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