Data Robotics DroboPro 8-Way NAS Review

Wed 2009-12-09 - Posted by Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

t-break have posted a review of the high-end Data Robotics DroboPro, an 8-Way network attached storage (NAS) device.

Here's an excerpt:

"I gave up on Software RAID when I lost almost two terabytes of data simply because I updated the firmware on my motherboard. It was enough to make me switch to a dedicated NAS device and I chose a Buffalo iSCSI 4 bay device. Recently a friend of mine was selling his DroboPro and I decided to pick it up- the two things that attracted me most to DroboPro was its ability to take eight drives for a massive capacity of 16TB and my curiosity to try out BeyondRAID.

Drobo’s BeyondRAID technology is more-or-less your standard RAID with hot-swapping and dynamic resizing in an extremely simply interface. You can specify failure against a single or two disks allowing you to protect your data even if two drives fail simultaneously."

If you need maximum data storage and don't need special features like website hosting, then this is one mighty impressive unit.

Click here to read the full review.

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