Daily Archives: June 21, 2012

Is the tiering technology in the Drobo 5D and Drobo Mini the same as the B1200i?

blog epounds Is the tiering technology in the Drobo 5D and Drobo Mini the same as the B1200i?This question came in from a blogger and we thought it was a pretty good question. There is a difference and it’s a long answer, but I’ll try and summarize.

We ship the B1200i with 3 SSDs, leaving the remainder of the drive bays available for HDDs. Because the B1200i is in “dual disk redundancy” mode by default, those SSDs are in a triple mirror, allowing you to lose two of them and still have access to your data. Continue Reading

A new generation of Drobo technology

blog epounds A new generation of Drobo technologyWow. Six years ago, I was working for a muti billion-dollar storage company and I saw my first demo of BeyondRAID (before a Drobo existed). I was blown away by the simplicity and flexibility of the storage stack. I had to have it and I quickly became an early Drobo adopter in my own home. Now, I manage the Drobo product family and we are releasing new Drobos based on a platform that has a ground-up design. I am very excited!

The new Drobo 5D and Drobo Mini have everything that we (and I) have always loved from Drobo, with the addition of blazing fast performance, more robust data protection, and an innovative use of solid state drives (SSDs).Continue Reading

We’ve named our new Drobos: Drobo Mini and Drobo 5D

blog tbuiocchi e1332538899728 Weve named our new Drobos: Drobo Mini and Drobo 5DHi everyone, we’re very excited to be showing you our upcoming new products. I’m pretty sure that you’re going to love them because they’re exactly what you’ve been asking for. Check out the press release that went out today and read Erik’s blog.

Your emails, blogs, tweets, and phone calls could not have been clearer. Faster. Even more protection for my data. Smaller. Don’t lose the ease-of-use. And did I mention faster?

Check ‘em out –  our guys here are very proud – we’re doing some things that are quite unique and unprecedented, and it adds up to some terrific new products – and did I mention faster?