Drobo DroboElite, User Manual, Page: 10 / 178

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I. Introduction
Thank you for giving another Drobo® storage device a good home! We
at Data Robotics, Inc.™ have been working since 2004 to make
protecting, storing and managing your digital content truly effortless.
Why Drobo?
The Drobo family of products (Drobo, DroboPro™ and DroboElite™)
provides effortless, safe and expandable storage. There are many
different ways to store and protect digital content, but Drobo is the only
fully automatic storage device that performs many data management
tasks without user effort. Here’s what you can expect:
Fully automated data protection and management
Drobo automatically configures itself for data protection so you
don’t have to.
When a drive fails, your data is still safe (and all drives do
eventually fail).
Drobo senses any corrupted data and ensures that you only
access non-corrupt data.
No downtime to add capacity. Just add a drive to an empty Data
Bay, or replace a smaller drive with a larger one regardless of
capacity, speed, or manufacturer.
After a drive is installed into an empty bay, the new drive
capacity is immediately available and protected.
Drobo’s Data Bay indicator lights tell you everything you need to
know!
Infinite expansion
Upgrading capacity is as simple as adding ink to a printer.
Mix ’n match any 3.5” (SATA) hard drives; no worrying about
matching make, model or capacity of Drobo’s existing drives.
Upgrade forever—just replace Drobo’s smallest drive with a
larger capacity drive. No data migration or reconfiguration is
required.
storage technology
What does it mean to go BeyondRAID? Going beyond traditional RAID
means leaving choices between striping and mirroring, limitations on