Drobo Drobo S 5 Bay eSATA, FireWire 800, USB 3.0 Storage Array Enclosure for Windows, Mac & Linux

Key Features

• Your Personal Speed Demon: eSATA, FireWire-800 and USB 3.0: Have a need for speed? With the new eSATA interface on Drobo S data transfer is up to 50% faster than FireWire 800.
• Up to 5 Drives of Instant Expansion up to 20TB : Grow your storage to meet with your data capacity needs with minimal effort. To add capacity, simply insert a new hard drive or replace your smallest drive with a larger one, even when all five drive bays are full.
• Unlike traditional RAID systems, the BeyondRAID technology found in Drobo S enables you to mix and match capacities, drive brands and speeds.
• 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.
• Self-Healing Technology: With the self-healing technology now incorporated into Drobo S, your data is safer than ever. Even when sitting idle, the Drobo will continually examine the blocks and sectors on every disk, flagging questionable areas.
• File and Operating System Agnostic: Drobo and its underlying BeyondRAID technology currently support the Windows, Mac and Linux? platforms, with file system support for NTFS, HFS+, EXT3 and FAT32. Since Drobo is a block level system, it easily adapts to almost any environment.
• Redundant Safety: Drobo can ensure your data is safe even if a hard disk fails. You'll feel safer knowing that if disks do fail, Drobo automatically enters a state of self-healing wherein it relays out your data across the remaining healthy disks and sectors.
• Self-Managing: Drobo is highly automated storage. There are no complex configuration screens, DIP switches, confounding choices, web consoles or other complications that prevent so many other storage devices from working out of the box.
• Drive Reordering: One long-standing requirement inherent in traditional RAID-based systems was that if for some reason you needed to remove the drives, you'd have to replace the drives in the exact same order. When you remove your disks from Drobo, you can put them back in any order you like.