DroboPro FS: For When You Need To Save The Entire Internet

[Hooch Tan]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/05/data-robotics-debuts-8-bay-drobopro-fs-with-automatic-offsite-ba/' target='_blank'>http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/05/...tic-offsite-ba/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"There are eight total bays within, and a pair of gigabit Ethernet jacks around back; by default, the second port is used to connect to a different subnet (possibly for offsite file replication), while users can opt for a protection mode during setup if they'd rather it act as a fail-safe (in case the primary port kicks the bucket). More important than all of that, though, is the new Drobo Sync feature, which will be exclusive to the DroboPro FS for at least the time being."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/dht/auto/1286385051.usr20447.jpg" style="border: 0px solid #d2d2bb;" /></p><p>While many computers now come with 500GB hard drives, if you are into photos or videos at all, you will soon find yourself running out of space.&nbsp; Instead of getting an extra hard drive a NAS might be a better option.&nbsp; If you are a multi-computer household, or a small business, a centralized storage system makes even more sense.&nbsp; With eight, count them, eight hard drive bays, the DroboPro FS should fit the storage requirements of most households and small businesses.&nbsp; While the syncing feature is nice, I do not know of many small businesses that figure in remote site backups.&nbsp; Perhaps if Data Robotics offered a partner program with different data centers, more places would use this feature.</p>

[djdj]

When you Need to Save the Entire Internet and Have Money to Burn

This thing without any drives is $1999. Which is WAY too expensive for what it is... it's a computer with 8 SATA ports and some custom software. Should be $500 tops.

[Reid Kistler]

When you Need to Save the Entire Internet and Have Money to Burn

This thing without any drives is $1999. Which is WAY too expensive for what it is... it's a computer with 8 SATA ports and some custom software. Should be $500 tops.


Don't know about the $500 figure - although perhaps that might be possible without the drives. Certainly $2k WITHOUT drives seems excessive: most of the "small businesses" I know would not spring for the more-or-less $2,500 that a Working Drobo (with drives) seems to run....

Then again, many small businesses are lucky if they have ANY data back-up plan in place! :(

The relative ease & security of Online Backup services is probably a better deal (unless, perhaps, you push a LOT of data each day??).

[Lee Yuan Sheng]

I think the price is for their proprietary stuff that they use in an attempt to differentiate themselves. I recall the more hardcore NAS stuff to be silly expensive though.