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- Scalable desktop storage array
- 1 x USB 3.0
- Holds 4 x 3.5-Inch SATA HDD's for up to 24 TB
- Award-winning BeyondRAID automated data protection
- On-the-fly and instant capacity expansion
- Battery-backed memory to protect against power interruptions
- Desktop storage ideal for storing and backing up your data on a Mac or Windows based laptop or PC
- Operating System Support: Mac OS X 10.7 or higher; Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit)
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| Price | $259.99 | $599.99 | $519.00 | $569.99 |
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| Sold By | Amazon.com | Amazon.com | Amazon.com | Amazon.com |
| Hardware Interface | usb3.0 | usb3.0 | ethernet | usb3.0 |
| Hard Disk Size | 0 TB | 0 GB | Information not provided | 0 GB |
| Dimensions | 6.3 inches x 10.7 inches x 5 inches | 7.3 inches x 10.3 inches x 5.9 inches | 7.3 inches x 10.3 inches x 5.9 inches | 1.8 inches x 7.1 inches x 7.3 inches |
| Item Package Weight | 11.9 pounds | 14.2 pounds | 13.8 pounds | 4.85 pounds |
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Ultimate Investment ProtectionDrobo takes upgradability to the next level. Not only can you upgrade capacity with no downtime by adding new drives or replacing smaller drives with larger ones, you can seamlessly upgrade to a new Drobo by simply removing the disk pack from your current system, and moving it to a new Drobo. Upgrading not only gives you an instant performance boost, but also delivers all the other benefits of the new Drobo. |
All Your Stuff, Automatically SafeBuilt on award-winning BeyondRAID technology with single or dual-drive redundancy, Drobo protects your data without any user interaction. Consult the online capacity calculator to determine how the choice of drive size, number of drives, and protection levels affect available capacity at drobo.com/products/capacity-calculator. Drives can be added or replaced on-the-fly for storage expansion with zero downtime. If you're running low on space, the lights on the front tell you what to do. Just add a drive in an empty slot or remove a smaller drive and replace it with a larger one. |
Fast and Flexibility with USB 3.0With USB 3.0 support, the latest generation of the original Drobo is more than 3x faster than the previous generation. Not only will accessing your data be fast, but rebuild times have improved by 4x in this generation giving you the peace of mind that your data will be fully protected as quickly as possible. USB 3.0 gives the maximum flexibility to be able to plug in to any Windows or Mac easily and start storing or backing up your valuable data within minutes. |
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Time Machine Backup SupportPairing Time Machine with Drobo improves your data protection by ensuring your data is safe in the event of hard drive failure. Apple’s guidelines recommend allocating twice the capacity of the Mac’s hard drive for Time Machine. Time Machine users know that it will gradually use all available disk space without an easy way to stop this from happening. With Drobo you can easily control the maximum storage space available for Time Machine backups through Drobo Dashboard. |
Power Protecting Your Critical DataDrobo doesn’t just protect you from a drive failure, but also from potential data loss after a power outage. In every Drobo, we include battery backup technology that protects all data in memory or cache. When power spontaneously goes away, Drobo moves any in flight data to onboard flash in your Drobo so it will be protected and moved to your disk drives once power is restored. This ensures your important information is safe and sound. Even better, your battery recharges itself and is designed to last for the life of you Drobo. |
What's in the BoxDrobo Gen3, 6 ft (1.8 m) power cord with power supply, 6 ft (1.8 m), USB 3.0 cable Quick Start Card |
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The manufacturer and another representative commented on the review below
By
J. Rasmussen
on October 10, 2014
Size: Base Unit
Verified Purchase
18 Comments
Sending feedback...
Update: Drobo finally confirmed both units were indeed faulty.
Completely unreliable and untimely support, plus only 90 day technical support, not 1 year. First off, I have been an IT professional for over two decades, and have personally set up and recommended many Drobos (from the standard Drobo to the Drobo Pro) for various businesses. The past Drobo units have worked exceptionally, but when I purchase the new Drobo 3rd generation for myself, it is nothing but failures.
The first unit would eventually be found to be dead on arrival. Out of the box it would refuse to connect, as other times it would connect, then disconnect randomly after a while. The same thing occurred on USB 3.0 as well as USB 2, and with different cables and USB 3.0 cards (as even Drobo says on their website it is picky in what USB 3.0 cards it likes). Even one card on their verified list was tried and had the exact same issues. Note that none of my other external drives, USB 3.0 or 2, had any such problems and always stayed connected. The Drobo even rejected a HDD I would later find was completely fine, passing all manufacturer's diagnostic tests and currently running flawlessly in another system. When the Drobo finally appeared to be running after many many hours of troubleshooting, data was copied to it. By the next day the Drobo drive was coming up as unformatted or showing as 'local disk', and even Drobo support verified all the data was gone and the only option was to reformat.
After much more troubleshooting with Drobo support over many days, they verified it was bad and I requested a brand new Drobo to be shipped to me overnight, which they did.Read more ›
Completely unreliable and untimely support, plus only 90 day technical support, not 1 year. First off, I have been an IT professional for over two decades, and have personally set up and recommended many Drobos (from the standard Drobo to the Drobo Pro) for various businesses. The past Drobo units have worked exceptionally, but when I purchase the new Drobo 3rd generation for myself, it is nothing but failures.
The first unit would eventually be found to be dead on arrival. Out of the box it would refuse to connect, as other times it would connect, then disconnect randomly after a while. The same thing occurred on USB 3.0 as well as USB 2, and with different cables and USB 3.0 cards (as even Drobo says on their website it is picky in what USB 3.0 cards it likes). Even one card on their verified list was tried and had the exact same issues. Note that none of my other external drives, USB 3.0 or 2, had any such problems and always stayed connected. The Drobo even rejected a HDD I would later find was completely fine, passing all manufacturer's diagnostic tests and currently running flawlessly in another system. When the Drobo finally appeared to be running after many many hours of troubleshooting, data was copied to it. By the next day the Drobo drive was coming up as unformatted or showing as 'local disk', and even Drobo support verified all the data was gone and the only option was to reformat.
After much more troubleshooting with Drobo support over many days, they verified it was bad and I requested a brand new Drobo to be shipped to me overnight, which they did.Read more ›
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Drobo says
October 15, 2014
Dear J. Rasmussenon
We are sorry for your experience and we would very much like to review your support case, would you responded to followup@drobo.com with the Support case number.
Thank You,
Drobo Customer Service
We are sorry for your experience and we would very much like to review your support case, would you responded to followup@drobo.com with the Support case number.
Thank You,
Drobo Customer Service
The manufacturer commented on this review
Drobo says
March 15, 2016
Hello Rasmussen,
Thank you so much for your feedback on Drobo a while back. We are disappointed to hear about your negative with our customer service over a year ago. You raise some valid points about Drobo and we would like to answer them. However, before we get to that we want to give you a bit of history on what has been going on at Drobo. The company was recently taken over by a new investor group and management team. The new CEO wrote a letter about that and its posted on the Drobo homepage if you are interested http://www.drobo.com/ceo-letter/. The change in mgmt/investors has also brought change in ways the company is managed.
Drobo's mission has and always will be to Preserve Simplicity. That mission is seen in the design of our products and software ...but it hasn't always been communicated clearly to customers.
Specifically, investments are being made to provide our customers with dramatically better "basic" support tools. Our view is most people who own a Drobo are able to navigate a searchable, well organized library of clearly written knowledge base articles about relevant & current topics.
Admittedly... we don't have that library right now. Our knowledge base is difficult to search (for technology architecture reasons) and many of the articles are dated. However, over the course of Q4 2015 and Q1 2016 we have been working hard to correct these problems. These is still lots of work left to be done but progress is happening at a rapid pace! In addition to writing numerous new knowledge base articles and clarifying/updating many others, Drobo is investing in a series of videos users can access to help them with specific snags they may have run into.
Alternatively, we know many of our customers may want or need to speak with a live person to help them out. We have made changes in how our phone support works and have more changes on the horizon.
While we are rapidly improving customer support, there is only so much we can do and only so fast we can move due to a number of contractual commitments and technology decisions that were made long before the current management team arrived. We strongly believe that when all the changes we have on our roadmap are implemented... Drobo's customer support (i.e. DroboCare) and our resource library will be yet another reason why customers choose Drobo!!
Thanks again for your posting of Drobo reviews. For now, we hope the above information is helpful as you think about the new efforts at Drobo and how we might be able to help you.
Regards,
Drobo Customer Service
Thank you so much for your feedback on Drobo a while back. We are disappointed to hear about your negative with our customer service over a year ago. You raise some valid points about Drobo and we would like to answer them. However, before we get to that we want to give you a bit of history on what has been going on at Drobo. The company was recently taken over by a new investor group and management team. The new CEO wrote a letter about that and its posted on the Drobo homepage if you are interested http://www.drobo.com/ceo-letter/. The change in mgmt/investors has also brought change in ways the company is managed.
Drobo's mission has and always will be to Preserve Simplicity. That mission is seen in the design of our products and software ...but it hasn't always been communicated clearly to customers.
Specifically, investments are being made to provide our customers with dramatically better "basic" support tools. Our view is most people who own a Drobo are able to navigate a searchable, well organized library of clearly written knowledge base articles about relevant & current topics.
Admittedly... we don't have that library right now. Our knowledge base is difficult to search (for technology architecture reasons) and many of the articles are dated. However, over the course of Q4 2015 and Q1 2016 we have been working hard to correct these problems. These is still lots of work left to be done but progress is happening at a rapid pace! In addition to writing numerous new knowledge base articles and clarifying/updating many others, Drobo is investing in a series of videos users can access to help them with specific snags they may have run into.
Alternatively, we know many of our customers may want or need to speak with a live person to help them out. We have made changes in how our phone support works and have more changes on the horizon.
While we are rapidly improving customer support, there is only so much we can do and only so fast we can move due to a number of contractual commitments and technology decisions that were made long before the current management team arrived. We strongly believe that when all the changes we have on our roadmap are implemented... Drobo's customer support (i.e. DroboCare) and our resource library will be yet another reason why customers choose Drobo!!
Thanks again for your posting of Drobo reviews. For now, we hope the above information is helpful as you think about the new efforts at Drobo and how we might be able to help you.
Regards,
Drobo Customer Service
The manufacturer commented on the review below
By
William Walsh
on January 12, 2015
Size: Base Unit
Verified Purchase
3 Comments
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I would give this one star, but I have to give their tech support some credit, even if the email, wait, email, wait, method of dealing with them was tedious and time consuming. (Edit: After 2.5+ days without a reply from their tech support, I'm not even giving them credit for decent tech support anymore, lowered rating to one star).
However, after sending me 3 different firmwares to install, my device is still not working.
My take on this, is that the concept is great, but their implementation is lacking in stability for most offices. Bought this for a client's office, to provide for some data redundancy. Initial setup was fine, and went smoothly. But after a brief power outage the day of install, the system went into a reboot loop that never stopped. Without the drives in it, the Drobo software could detect it, and was able to install the firmware, but with the drives (even fresh ones) it would not recognize it and would go into a reboot loop.
I just dont think there is enough quality assurance behind the product at this point, and I would not recommend it at this stage. I'm waiting to hear back from Drobo support one more time, but I've expressed an interested in RMA'ing to Amazon as defective at this stage.
EDIT: Each day I've sent in an email, and no reply from Drobo tech support in 72 hours now. I called in earlier this morning, and was assured that the person I needed to talk to would call me back, and 6 hours later, no call. I shouldn't be surprised based on my experience with their customer support.
I will never recommend or use a Drobo product after this. This was my first and last purchase, and it has nothing to do with the quality of the product, I understand sometimes defective units go out.Read more ›
However, after sending me 3 different firmwares to install, my device is still not working.
My take on this, is that the concept is great, but their implementation is lacking in stability for most offices. Bought this for a client's office, to provide for some data redundancy. Initial setup was fine, and went smoothly. But after a brief power outage the day of install, the system went into a reboot loop that never stopped. Without the drives in it, the Drobo software could detect it, and was able to install the firmware, but with the drives (even fresh ones) it would not recognize it and would go into a reboot loop.
I just dont think there is enough quality assurance behind the product at this point, and I would not recommend it at this stage. I'm waiting to hear back from Drobo support one more time, but I've expressed an interested in RMA'ing to Amazon as defective at this stage.
EDIT: Each day I've sent in an email, and no reply from Drobo tech support in 72 hours now. I called in earlier this morning, and was assured that the person I needed to talk to would call me back, and 6 hours later, no call. I shouldn't be surprised based on my experience with their customer support.
I will never recommend or use a Drobo product after this. This was my first and last purchase, and it has nothing to do with the quality of the product, I understand sometimes defective units go out.Read more ›
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Drobo says
January 15, 2015
Dear William Walsh "WxW" ,
We would like to check on your case, would you forward your case number to followup@drobo.com so we can have the Support Manger review.
Thank You,
Drobo Customer Support
We would like to check on your case, would you forward your case number to followup@drobo.com so we can have the Support Manger review.
Thank You,
Drobo Customer Support
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