Drobo 8 TB Bundle 04DD1-20EARS-4 - Includes One Drobo and Four 2 TB WD Caviar Green Hard Drive (Black)

Drobo is the world’s best storage experience. This safe, expandable storage solution protects your data against a hard drive crash. Drobo’s built-in BeyondRAID technology automatically self-heals around drive failures and data errors and expands capacity dynamically when you add a drive. Start with two drives, grow to four, then upsize smaller drives to get Terabytes of protection. Add drives to Drobo at any time. There’s no down time, data migration or waiting to access new capacity. With nothing to configure or manage, Drobo is the ideal solution for primary storage as well as backup. Drobo holds up to four 3.5-inch SATA hard drives and allows you to mix and match drive capacities and speeds from any manufacturer. Drobo’s LEDs tells you how Drobo is doing and how much free capacity you have. If you’ve ever successfully navigated a traffic signal, you’re a certified Drobo expert. Drobo is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux. Interfaces include FireWire 800 (FireWire 400 Compatible) & Enhanced USB 2.0.

• BeyondRAID leverages RAID's protection methodologies, including mirroring and striping with parity. However, BeyondRAID applies these algorithms on top of a robust and flexible storage virtualization platform. This removes RAID's limitations and drawbacks.
• Drobo's drive redundancy protects your data from the failure of one drive, and self heals during a drive failure.
• Instantly expand your available capacity by hot swapping in an additional drive, or replacing an existing drive with a larger-capacity one. You can do this while your Drobo is operating, allowing you to expand capacity with no downtime!
• Mix and match any 3.5-inch SATA drives of your choice - any capacity, speed or manufacturer.
• With its self-healing technology, Drobo keeps your data safer than ever. Drobo continually examines the blocks and sectors on every drive, flagging questionable areas and ensureing your data is being written only to the healthy areas of your drives.