Building on the success the Drobo FS, Data Robotics delivers the big brother: DroboPro FS. With more capacity, speed, connectivity options, and automated data backup, the DroboPro FS continues to deliver the best file sharing experience ever. From the moment you plug it in and see it instantly appear on your desktop, you'll know there's nothing like it. The DroboPro FS is perfect for any small office, home office, or a media rich connected home needing a simple, safe device for sharing and backing up files over the network

Like all Drobo storage products, DroboPro FS provides redundant data protection without the complexities of RAID. Just plug in your DroboPro FS and data protection is all set up with no configuration required. We call this BeyondRAID™ technology. You'll call it peace of mind. Also with the new Drobo Sync¹capabilities you can seamlessly backup your valuable data from one DroboPro FS to another somewhere on your network or your VPN. Peace of mind magnified.

Share your data on a Gigabit Ethernet Network
DroboPro FS connects directly to a Gigabit Ethernet network to make sharing your data easy. Just plug it into any switch or wireless router and you are ready to go.

Simple Data Backup
Use the integrated Drobo Sync¹feature to quickly and easily backup your data to another DroboPro FS on your network or via your VPN. Simple to configure and schedule, Drobo Sync provides the power to keep your important data safe and secure.

Network Redundancy Built In and Automatic
The DroboPro FS has two Gigabit Ethernet ports that can be configured to fail over if one link fails. You can also easily setup the ports to provide two separate network links to your storage: one for your data and the other for Drobo Sync data transfers, for example.

Supports the Computer of Your Choice
Connect to your DroboPro FS using any Windows, Mac, or UNIX/Linux computer.2 Whatever system you have, it's likely you'll be able to connect to it over your network quickly and easily.

Easy Expansion to 16TB and Beyond
DroboPro FS holds up to eight drives allowing you to effortlessly grow your storage to meet your data capacity needs. To add more space, simply insert a new hard drive or replace your smallest drive with a larger one, even when all drive bays are full.

And unlike traditional RAID systems, the BeyondRAID technology in DroboPro FS enables you to mix and match drive capacities, brands and speeds. This unprecedented flexibility allows for continuous expansion as available hard drive capacities increase.

With DroboPro FS, expansion is automatic, instantaneous and access to data is always maintained.

Protection from up to 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 you never lose access to your data. Running out of space? No problem. Switch back to single-drive redundancy at any time. Unlike moving between traditional RAID levels, there's no need to reformat or migrate data off of the DroboPro FS — potentially saving you hours or days of downtime.

Self-Healing Technology
With the self-healing "virtual hot spare" technology incorporated into DroboPro FS, your data is safer than ever. If a drive fails, DroboPro FS keeps your data in the safest state possible by automatically moving your data to the available space on the remaining healthy drives returning to the highest level of drive failure protection possible.

Seamless Integration with Apple Time Machine
The DroboPro FS enables network backup for Mac users at home, home office or small offices. The DroboPro FS delivers the most seamless support for Apple Time Machine of any network storage system on the market today. Using Time Machine with DroboPro FS is as easy as clicking one box in the Drobo Dashboard software, with no need for confusing, complex command line work.

A Drobo as Unique as you Are
Select from a wide selection of free DroboApps designed to give you the freedom to configure and customize your DroboPro FS to meet your own unique set of requirements. Our growing library of DroboApps3 adds amazing functionality like media, web, NFS, and more!

¹Drobo Sync will be available end of October 2010, via a Drobo Dashboard update

Drobo Sync
A new world of data protection is available on the DroboPro FS and it's called Drobo Sync. Data replication is important for your data to protect against disaster. Drobo Sync allows you to quickly and easily replicate your data to a second DroboPro FS that can be located anywhere on your network or accessible via your VPN connection for protection.

Drobo Sync is fast because it only replicates the changes to your files instead of the whole file when it changes. This saves you time and bandwidth. Drobo Sync is reliable due to its data verification process to ensure that all changes are validated on the second system. Drobo Sync provides data continuity for your business. If disaster strikes, simply put your second DroboPro FS into production to get access to all your data instantly.

Drobo Sync is managed from within Drobo Dashboard which ensures the simplicity of setup and management. Just a few clicks and your data is protected and updated on a scheduled basis or any time you request.

Drobo Apps

DroboPro FS supports DroboApps, an entire world of community-created and community-supported applications that can be run on the Linux-based operating system embedded in Drobo FS. What you do with them is up to you. Drobo FS is a computing platform that allows you to install the DroboApps you need. The available applications range from the simple and lightweight, to the complex and powerful.

With DroboApps, the world is your server.

To Serve and Protect
Download additional apps like rsync to replicate your data to other systems.

Remote Access
Access your files remotely using secure remote access, FTP server, or web server applications.

Are you a Linux Developer?
If you'd like to develop DroboApps, just visit the Drobo Developer Community (DDC) on DroboSpace.com.

DroboApps are community-created and community-supported, which means they were not created by Data Robotics. For support and questions, contact the application developer directly. Contact info for each developer is located on each applications page.

¹Drobo Sync will be available at the end of October 2010, via a Drobo Dashboard update

Drobo Sync BeyondRAID Technology File System and Operation System Agnostic Mixed Drive Capacity Utilization Redundantly Safe

Proportional Rebuild Times Self-Managing Self-Healing Storage Virtualization Drive Reordering

Drobo Sync¹
Each DroboPro FS has integrated data replication called Drobo Sync, which allows you to easily replicate data between two DroboPro FS systems. Built into Drobo Dashboard for easy administration, Drobo Sync provides a simple one-way data replication process to ensure that your data is protected against disaster.

Key Features of Drobo Sync include:
Simple setup
Replication of only changed file information
Easy scheduling of data replication updates
Replicate data to a second DroboPro FS on the same network or via your company VPN

BeyondRAID™ Technology
Every Drobo product comes with the revolutionary BeyondRAID storage technology — the next generation of redundant disk protection. BeyondRAID will not only keep your data safe, but also will increase uptime and availability. BeyondRAID technology offers several improvements over traditional RAID-based storage systems, including the flexibility to replace failed disks, increase capacity and with a single click switch between single and dual disk redundancy all without costly downtime.

Key features of BeyondRAID include:
Data protection against two simultaneous hard disk failures
Instant capacity expansion without downtime
Self-management
Automatic healing

File System and Operating System Agnostic
DroboPro FS supports standard network protocols (AFP and CIFS) allowing access to its data from any Windows, Mac, or UNIX/Linux client2

Mixed Drive Capacity Utilization
Grow storage in line with data capacity needs with minimal effort. To add capacity, customers can simply insert a new hard disk or replace the smallest disk with a larger one, even when all eight disk bays are full.

Unlike traditional RAID systems, the BeyondRAID technology enables IT managers to efficiently mix n’ match disk brands, capacities and speeds. This allows for continuous expansion as disk capacities grow. Now, expansion is automatic, instantaneous and access to data is always maintained.

To find out exactly how much free capacity you'll have with your choice of disk capacities, try out our interactive Capacity Calculator.

Redundantly Safe
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.

Proportional Rebuild Times
The time it takes Drobo to rebuild data after a drive failure or removal is proportional to the amount of data stored in the pool — meaning the less capacity that is used, even on a 2TB disk, the shorter your rebuild times will be. This is superior to traditional RAID, which lacks proportional rebuild times, and is forced relay out every drive block even if it does not contain user data.

Since Drobo is "Data Aware", it tracks where data is on each disk, so it can differentiate between used and unused portions of disk. This expedites rebuild times and reduces your risk of losing data to an additional disk failure. In short, your data is safer on a Drobo.

Self-Healing
When Drobo detects a "bad" hard disk, it proactively advises you with a series of warnings ranging from a blinking red LED on its front panel, to pop-up alerts in Drobo Dashboard, to email alerts. What Drobo does next is exceptional. It enters a self-healing mode where it repairs around the bad sector or disk, and will work until it returns to the safest state possible. If Drobo has sufficient time and free capacity (indicated by all lights returning to a solid green state), it can even withstand additional hard disk failures — that's the power of self-healing.

Storage Virtualization
BeyondRAID was designed from the ground up to allow the storage capacity of the array to expand and contract. BeyondRAID makes this a simple process by utilizing a technology called “virtualization.” Virtualization provides a layer of abstraction between the data requested by the file system and the physical location of that data on the disk drives. A given piece of data can be located on any drive, and on any physical location on that drive. This is what makes adding a drive to a Drobo so simple. The new drive just provides additional places to store data.

Virtualization is what enables BeyondRAID to effortlessly change the data arrangement on the drives, for example, changing data stored as a mirror into data stored as parity stripe, say, without interrupting the user access to data. Virtualization completely decouples the physical space available in the array from the space reported to the operating system. This is how BeyondRAID is able to remove the need to manually expand/contract the file system as more space becomes available or is removed.

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.

¹Drobo Sync will be available at the end of October 2010, via a Drobo Dashboard update
2 UNIX/Linux clients can connect via CIFS/SMB. NFS and Linux Dashboard are available via DroboApps

Disk Interface
Eight-bay capacity
3.5" SATA I or SATA II hard disk drives
No carriers required
Mix and match capacities, disk brands and speeds¹

Capacity
Continuously upgradeable with larger and faster drives. Use our capacity calculator to estimate your storage in various configurations.

		Width	Height	Length
	Inches	12.17	5.46	14.1
	mm	309.1	138.7	358.1

Weight: 16lbs 3ozs (without hard drives or packaging)
3U for a standard 19" rack