With a traditional RAID system, you’re stuck with one capacity of drive and it’s a pretty good idea to make sure they’re the same make and model as well. You also need to buy all the drives you want to use for the RAID up front, whether you’re using the capacity immediately or not. With… Continue Reading
Drobo Case Study – Innervel Solutions, Inc.
Our case studies are typically posted on Drobo Reviews, but we thought the readers of myDrobo would enjoy this too: Innervel Solutions, Inc. is an IT services company that provides managed datacenter cloud hosting, communications solutions, and network and infrastructure consulting. They understand the intricacies of optimized storage, which is what helped guide their decision… Continue Reading
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Since 2007, Drobo’s mission has been to protect and serve the world’s data. Drobo is the safe and expandable data storage solution for your business or personal use. With DAS, NAS, and SAN offerings, Drobo plugs into your network or directly to Mac and Windows systems for data protection without the complexities of RAID, making… Continue Reading
Drobo: Increasing IOPS with an mSATA SSD
All prosumer Drobos now include an Accelerator Bay on the underside of the unit. This feature allows for the use of an SSD to accelerate access to the most frequently accessed data, while still offering the expansive storage capacity of the traditional hard disks. By combining disk technologies, the Drobo provides transactional performance for workspace… Continue Reading
Drobo Dashboard: Making Storage Management Simple
Drobo is designed from the ground up to be simple, hands-off storage. When it comes to configuration and management of the device, asking our customers to remember IP addresses, hostnames, or web URLs didn’t fit our objectives. While the light-based alerting system on the front panel allows for nearly all operations to be performed without… Continue Reading
Drobo Data-Aware Tiering: Providing Accelerated Performance
Drobo recommends that when researching storage devices, the primary performance metric is throughput. A quick scan of web reviews reveals that a majority of the focus is on how quickly the device can read or write large files. Think drag-and-drop. While this is a great metric if your device will primarily be used for… Continue Reading
Data Storage Management: How Drobo Keeps Your Data Safer
Data Storage Management When considering data storage management, the single most important factor is protection. Is your data safe? The answer may not be an emphatic “yes” unless you are doing several things the right way, and using the right technologies. No one technology protects you from everything, so answering yes happens when you… Continue Reading
Drobo Performance - When Your Drives Break
A hard drive failure is a question of when, not if. You need to be prepared and protected to maintain a high level of Drobo performance. Every day in our live demos and on live chat we talk with individuals and business owners who are looking for more info on how they can be better… Continue Reading
Drobo Support – Great Support Part of a Great Experience
We at Drobo have long been committed to the best storage experience ever, and we recognize that fulfilling this mission means having great support in addition to an innovative, intuitive product. That’s one of the reasons we like to give you a number of ways to contact our trained Drobo support organization – for whatever… Continue Reading