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What\'s included:- DROBO FS 5-BAY NAS UNIT
- NO POWER SUPPLYDrobo FS OverviewThe revolutionary Drobo FS was designed with one purpose in mind: to deliver the best file sharing experience ever. From the moment you plug it in and it instantly appears on your desktop, you’ll know there’s nothing like it. The all-in-one Drobo FS is perfect for any connected home, home office, or small office environment needing a simple, safe device for sharing and backing up files over the network.

Like all Drobo storage products, Drobo FS provides redundant data protection without the complexities of RAID. Just plug in your Drobo FS and your data protection is set up with no configuration required. We call thisBeyondRAID™technology. You’ll call it peace of mind.

Drobo FS 5-Bay NASEnlarge ImageEnlarge ImageEnlarge ImageEnlarge ImageDrobo FS Features

• Share Your Data on a Gigabit Ethernet Network Drobo FS connects directly to a Gigabit Ethernet network to make sharing your data easy. Just plug it into any switch or wireless router and you’re ready to go. You can even connect the Drobo FS directly to the Ethernet port on your computer without having to configure any settings.
• 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 from the Drobo FS, potentially saving you hours or days of downtime.
• Supports All Computers on Your Network Connect to your Drobo FS using any Windows or Mac computer. Multiple computers can access the Drobo FS at the same time, providing storage to your entire network.
• Centralized Backup for Your Entire Network The Drobo FS enables network backup for Mac and Windows users at home, home office, or small offices. Backing up your PC to your Drobo is as easy as using Drobo withDrobo PC Backup, now bundled with Drobo, Drobo S, Drobo FS, and Drobo B800fs. Also, the Drobo FS delivers the most seamless support for Apple Time Machine of any network storage system on the market today. Using Time Machine with Drobo FS is as easy as one click in Drobo Dashboard.
• Easy Expansion to 15TB and Beyond Drobo FS holds up to five drives allowing you to effortlessly grow your storage to meet your data capacity needs. To add more space, simply insert a new hard drive or replace your smallest drive with a larger one, even when all drive bays are full. And unlike traditional RAID systems, theBeyondRAID™technology in Drobo FS enables you to mix and match drive capacities, brands, and speeds. This unprecedented flexibility allows for continuous expansion as available hard drive capacities increase.
• A Drobo as Unique as You Are Select from a wide selection of free DroboApps designed to give you the freedom to configure and customize your Drobo FS to meet your own unique set of requirements. Our growing library of DroboApps* adds amazing functionality like media, web, and more!

  *DroboApps are community created and community supported applications. Visit ourapps pagefor more vs Traditional RAID

  • BeyondRAID: Storage Without Limitations BeyondRAID technology, built into every Drobo, delivers all of the benefits of traditional RAID, while providing much more and leaving many of the limitations behind. This next-generation of redundant storage technology brings together enhanced protection, reliability, expandability, and ease-of-use. Problems with Traditional RAID RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) was developed in the 1980s to pool disk drives for increased capacity and reliability for data storage. Since then, RAID has been a huge success, preventing single disk drive failures from causing data loss, and has been used in almost every enterprise data center.

    Unfortunately, the complexity of RAID has made it challenging for small businesses and consumers to effectively use the technology. RAID has a high learning curve with many options. There\'s RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60 along with unfamiliar terminology like striping, mirroring, and parity.

    Aside from complexity, these are the primary challenges with traditional RAID:

    • Lock-in of RAID levels. To change RAID levels, most storage arrays require the data to be moved off of it, reconfigured, and then moved back on. If you want to move to RAID 6 from RAID 5 for protection against two drive failures, it\'s a reinitialize and start over.
    • Lack of expandability. Once drives are configured into a RAID pool, that is it. If you want to add more storage capacity, the solution is to create a new RAID pool, leaving you with another chunk of storage to manage - or you can just reinitialize and start over.
    • Debilitated state after a drive failure. When a drive fails, most RAID implementations enter a state where data loss will occur if another drive falters before the user replaces the failed drive. Also, performance is hampered when in this debilitated state.
  • Enlarge ImageMoving Beyond RAID Drobo\'s BeyondRAID technology solves these fundamental issues with traditional RAID while delivering much more. Built on an advanced virtualization platform, BeyondRAID chooses the correct protection algorithm based on data availability needs at any given moment.Since the technology works at the block level, it can write blocks of data that alternate between data protection approaches.

    If you need to add storage capacity to a Drobo, simply insert additional disk drives or replace the smallest disks with larger ones - no need to change RAID levels, purchase a new storage array or go through the complex administration of pooling RAID groups. The BeyondRAID feature even allows IT managers to switch from single to dual disk redundancy with a single click, thereby ensuring enterprise-level dual parity data protection if required. If a drive happens to fail, Drobo will automatically re-layout the data to return to a protected state without any user interaction.

  Drobo FS Data Sheet
  • Drobo FS Data Sheet Drobo FS Data Sheet - opens PDFDrobo FS Data SheetLike all Drobo storage products, Drobo FS provides redundant data protection without the complexities of RAID. Just plug in your Drobo FS and your data protection is all set up with no configuration required. We call this BeyondRAID™ technology. You’ll call it peace of mind. View Drobo FS Data Sheet - opens PDF | Download Drobo FS Data Sheet PDF, 99K, 2 pages