Data robotics DROBO S DATASHEET
All New Drobo S – The World’s
Most Advanced USB 3.0 Array
Say hello to the world’s most advanced USB 3.0 array. In addition to blazing fast
transfer speeds for creative professionals and small businesses, the all-new
Drobo S features USB 3.0 technology that delivers the most expandable,
future-proof solution available today. Drobo S offers an unbeatable combination
of automated protection, instant and perpetual expansion, and high-performance
making it ideal for all of your primary and backup storage needs.
Built on award-winning BeyondRAID
redundancy, Drobo S protects your data without any user interaction, even in the
event of multiple drive failures. It can hold up to ve hot-swappable drives, for
on-the-y drive capacity expansion with zero downtime.
Your Personal Speed Demon:
USB 3.0, eSATA, FireWire 800
Have a need for speed? With the new USB 3.0
interface on the Drobo S, data transfer is up to 50% faster
than FireWire 800. USB 3.0 offers backward compatibility
with all existing USB 2.0 systems, and the Drobo S features
a triple interface with eSATA and FireWire 800 to ensure
you’ll have a high-performance connection for virtually any
system.
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technology with single- or dual-drive
Self-Healing Technology
With the self-healing technology now incorporated into
Drobo S, your data is safer than ever. Even when sitting
idle, Drobo S will continually examine the blocks and sectors on
every drive, agging questionable areas. This preemptive
“scrubbing” helps ensure your data is being written only to the
healthy areas of your drives, and that your data is always safe.
Even if a drive fails, Drobo S keeps your data in the safest state
possible, utilizing the available space on the remaining healthy
drives.
World’s Most Expandable
USB 3.0 Array
The new Drobo S is the most expandable USB 3.0
product available today, with “industry rst” support for
multiple storage volumes that provide capacity up to 32TB
and beyond. Only BeyondRAID allows you to instantly expand
your capacity by simply adding a drive or replacing the
smallest drive with a larger one, even when all ve drive bays
are full. The unique ability to mix and match drive capacities,
brands, and speeds ensures you will be able to take
advantage of larger drives as they become available.
Protection from Two Drive Failures
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 at any time. Unlike moving between traditional
RAID 5 and RAID 6, there’s no need to reformat or migrate
data off of Drobo S, potentially saving you hours or days of
downtime.
What’s Stored on Drobo?
Drobo S has the speed to act as your daily, primary
hard drive, and the safety and capacity for backup
storage of large media and productivity les such as
video, photos, music, audio, documents, and
spreadsheets. Drobo S is ideal for small business
owners, creative professionals, graphic designers,
photographers, video editors, educators, home
ofces, and home media.
Windows, Mac, Linux
Drobo S connects to Windows, Mac, and Linux2
systems and supports NTFS, HFS+, EXT3, and FAT32
le formats. Everyone can take advantage of simple, powerful,
complete BeyondRAID data protection.
Product Data and Specication Sheet
Drobo S Technical Specifications
Power Modes:
Green:
Power on, Drobo S ready
Yellow:
Standby mode
Red:
Over temperature
Cool down and power cycle to restart
Space Used:
Blue:
0% – 100% of capacity
Product Data and Specication Sheet
Data Transfer:
Green:
eSATA, FireWire, or USB Activity
“Actions Required” Indicators:
Green:
No action needed. System is healthy.
Solid Yellow:
Add or upsize a drive here soon.
Drobo S is 85% full, add more capacity.
Blinking Green and Yellow:
Don’t remove any drives, operate
normally. Drobo S is optimizing data
layout. You still can read and
write to Drobo S during optimization.
Solid Red:
Add or upsize a drive here. Drobo S is
over 95% full, add capacity soon!
Blinking Red:
Replace this drive, immediately! This
hard drive has failed. Depending on
capacity, your data could be at risk
until you replace this failed drive.
Specifications
Drives: Accommodates from one to ve 3.5” SATA I / SATA II hard drives of any manufacturer, capacity, spindle speed,
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and/or cache
. No carriers or tools required.
Interface: USB 3.0 (USB 2.0 compatible), eSATA, FireWire 800 (FireWire 400 compatible)
Dimensions: 5.9” wide x 7.3” tall x 10.3” long
Weight: 8 lbs. (without power supply, hard drives or packaging)
Includes: Drobo S, external power supply (100v-240v) with U.S. 110v power cord, eSATA cable, FireWire 800 cable,
USB 3.0 cable, User Guide and Quick Start Card (printed), Drobo Resource CD with Drobo Dashboard application,
help les, and electronic documentation.
System Reqs: Apple Mac OS X 10.5.6 or greater; Microsoft Windows 2003, 2008, XP, Vista, Windows 7, or Linux using EXT3
Approximate Capacities
Mixed D rive Sizes Rate d Drive Cap acity Space A vailable Fo r Data Wit h Redundan t Protec tion
with 3 drives
with 4 drives
with 4 drives: 1TB + 1TB + 1TB + 1TB = 2.7TB space available for protected data
with 5 drives
with 5 drives: 1TB + 1TB + 1TB + 1TB + 1TB = 3.6TB space available for protected data
with 5 drives: 2TB + 2TB + 2TB + 2TB + 2TB = 7.3TB space available for protected data
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Please visit www.drobo.com/support for current list of drive recommendations.
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Linux support currently in Beta.
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Mixed Capacities. Approximate capacity examples are illustrative only, go to www.drobo.com/calculator for more information.
Note: Hard drives are sold separately and are not included.
3
: 320GB + 500GB + 500GB = 762.3GB space available for protected data
3
: 500GB + 500GB + 750GB + 750GB = 1.6TB space available for protected data
1.3TB
2.5TB
4.0TB
3
: 500GB + 500GB + 750GB + 750GB + 750GB = 2.3TB space available for protected data
3.3TB
5.0TB
10.0TB
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Data Robotics, Inc. • 1705 Wyatt Drive, Santa Clara, CA 95054 • www.datarobotics.com • 1-866-97DROBO
Copyright 2009 Data Robotics, Inc. Data Robotics, Drobo, and BeyondRAID are trademarks of Data Robotics, Inc., which may be registered in some jurisdictions. All other trademarks used are owned by their respective owners.
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