All prosumer Drobos now include an Accelerator Bay on the underside of the unit. This feature allows for the use of an SSD to accelerate access to the most frequently accessed data, while still offering the expansive storage capacity of the traditional hard disks. By combining disk technologies, the Drobo provides transactional performance for workspace… Continue Reading
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Drobo Dashboard: Making Storage Management Simple
Drobo is designed from the ground up to be simple, hands-off storage. When it comes to configuration and management of the device, asking our customers to remember IP addresses, hostnames, or web URLs didn’t fit our objectives. While the light-based alerting system on the front panel allows for nearly all operations to be performed without… Continue Reading
Drobo Data-Aware Tiering: Providing Accelerated Performance
Drobo recommends that when researching storage devices, the primary performance metric is throughput. A quick scan of web reviews reveals that a majority of the focus is on how quickly the device can read or write large files. Think drag-and-drop. While this is a great metric if your device will primarily be used for… Continue Reading