Drobo 4-Bay (3-Gen) 3.5" SATA/SSD Enclosure, USB 3.0, RAID.

2016-08-02T01:00:29

I've been successfully using Drobo for almost six years now. I find it to be great for mainly two reasons: you can expand the capacity at any time without interrupting your work for a second and it protects you against any drive failure since you can swap a drive without even turning your Drobo off. No interruptions ever! I started with a 1 TB and two 2 TB drives, by now I have one 2 TB and three 3 TB. Every time I've needed to have more capacity, I simply the lower capacity drive with a higher capacity one, without turning the unit off. Automatically Drobo reconfigures itself without interrupting your work: you continue to have access to your data and write new data to it, while it's reconfiguring itself. Twice I've had drive failure and simply replaced the faulty drive with a new one, without losing a single bit of information! Just great

D M.

2015-06-03T21:00:00

After calling Drobo, I loaded two 6 terrabyte drives in the Drobo. That went well. Three items prompt the 1 star review. 1. Windows claims 15.9 TB capacity! It should claim less then 6 TB capacity. Clearly the Drobo firmware doesn't understand the windows interface. This product was released more than a year ago. This should have been fixed long ago. 2. The USB 3.0 specification supports transfer speeds up to 625 MB/s. The Drobo, as configured, supports only USB 2.0 40 MB/s. That is not what I purchased! Other reviewer's have reported drive incompatibility issues. This, again, links to a Drobo firmware or design issue. I see no reason to purchase different drives in the perhaps vain attempt for better throughput. 3. There are many other sour reviews echoing my sentiments. So rather than waste more time and money on a poorly designed device, I'll simply sell it and move on.

GuyJr

2015-06-03T21:00:00

After calling Drobo, I loaded two 6 terrabyte drives in the Drobo. That went well. Three items prompt the 1 star review. 1. Windows claims 15.9 TB capacity! It should claim a less then 6 TB capacity. Clearly the Drobo firmware doesn't understand the windows interface. This product was released more than a year ago. This should have been fixed long ago. 2. The USB 3.0 specification supports transfer speeds up to 625 MB/s. The Drobo, as configured, supports only USB 2.0 40 MB/s. That is not what I purchased! Other reviewer's have reported drive incompatibility issues. This, again, links to a Drobo firmware or design issue. I see no reason to purchase different drives in the perhaps vain attempt for better throughput. 3. There are many other sour reviews echoing my sentiments. So rather than waste more time and money on a poorly designed device, I'll simply sell it and move on.

GUY H.

2015-05-25T21:00:00

I have been using a Drobo for years with no problems. I just upgraded to the Gen3 which is much faster. Easy to set-up. Highly recommended.

GARY M.

2015-04-12T21:00:00

I finally got tired of buying expandable drives only to run out of space. Drobo allows you to expand storage space as you need it by adding another drive to the four (4) bay unit. Also automatically uses RAID so if one drive goes bad the other still contains your data. Working great with no problems. I feel I need to mention that your files are written in 'Drobo format' and you cannot read the drive(s) without the Drobo unit. That being said, their extended waranty protection is reasonable once your original waranty has expired. I installed two (2) 3TB drives and still have two (2) drive bays open for future expansion. Overall I would recommend this unit for those of us who need massive storage available as an expansion drive. Great 'Bang for the Buck'.

John

2015-03-24T21:00:00

This product works. It was a diffucult decission since Scott Kelby gave bad marks since he lost his photos due to a failure of his drobo. Understand that Drobo uses a proproitary format for your data, so, if the unit goes bad you are dead in the water. Since drobo offers an extended waranty for a reasonable fee, this should not be a reason to not use this unit. 'Cloud Storage' is going to cost you the same if not more than the extended warenty offered by drobo. So far I'm happy with my purchase - got the rest of the year before I need to purchase the extended warenty.

John