As with the Drobo, there's no need to put the drives into any special carrier - you just push the bare drives into the DroboPro, connector-first, until the locking lever springs up into place. Looking at the front of the DroboPro, you can see 8 drive bays, each with a locking lever and door.
For people who really need that last 5% of functionality (for example, fiber channel interface for video work), they're going to need to look at another and more traditional solution. He estimates that they're offering 95% of the functionality of a traditional RAID setup at about 10% of the initial price. In a phone discussion with Mark Fuccio, Senior Director of Products & Markets at Data Robotics, Mark mentioned that the concept of BeyondRAID is that you basically just buy what you need storage-wise to start out, mixing and matching drives, and then add more drives or swap them out for larger capacity drives later. If the lack of a second power supply is of critical importance to you, then you may wish to consider a more traditional RAID system.
I know that this will probably drive a number of the system admins in our midst absolutely nuts, since they want redundancy for everything. There are no special power requirements, so you just plug a single AC cord into an outlet or UPS and you're ready to go. The DroboPro itself is attractive and is designed to sit on a desktop, although you can purchase option rack "wings" to mount the device in any standard 19" rack. Read on to find out more about the DroboPro and an excellent deal available to readers of TUAW. Using a proprietary storage technology called BeyondRAID, Data Robotics makes it easy to use a DroboPro to give you a big box 'o storage right now, and easily expand in the future.ĭata Robotics recently lent me a DroboPro for a detailed review, and I was able to give it a thorough workout. DroboPro has 8 drive bays into which you can drop 3.5" SATA drives of almost any capacity, from the old 160 GB model you've been using to hold the backup of your iTunes library to that 2 TB Western Digital Caviar drive you just purchased. Data Robotics delivered their "super-sized" version of the Drobo earlier this year.
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