Sunday, December 13, 2009

Big Boy Toys: The DROBO Elite


Ladies and Gentlemen,
Meet the King of All External Hard Drives,
Grow your storage in line with your data capacity needs with minimal effort. To add capacity, simply insert a new hard disk or replace your smallest disk with a larger one, even when all eight disk bays are full. Unlike traditional RAID systems, the BeyondRAID technology found in Drobo Elite enables you to mix n’ match disk brands, capacities and speeds. This allows continuous expansion as disk capacities grow. With DroboPro expansion is automatic, instantaneous and access to data is always maintained.


Not only can this hard drive hold eight 2 TB hard drives, totaling in 16 TB of possible media storage, it also has "Dual-Disk Redundancy' that backs up your data even if you remove three of the hard drives. The price tag is a little high though, starting at $3499 and with 16 TB of storage it cost $5899. It makes a great holiday gift though.

Some of its draw backs are that only 12.48 TB of storage is usable due to the disk redundancy, making the price tag very high for only 12.5 TB. But the Drobo Elite is made for businesses and allows multiple servers to connect to it.

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