myDrobo Top Blogs
Since 2007, Drobo’s mission has been to protect and serve the world’s data. Drobo is the safe and expandable data storage solution for your business or personal use. With DAS, NAS, and SAN offerings, Drobo plugs into your network or directly to Mac and Windows systems for data protection without the complexities of RAID, making it them most user friendly storage system.
Here are our top blog posts highlighting information that is helpful for all Drobo users:
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 the need to launch the Drobo Dashboard, there are some initial configuration tasks that must be performed with this tool… (read more)
Drobo: Increasing IOPS with an mSATA SSD
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 storage that wouldn’t be possible in an all-HDD configuration. The addition of an mSATA SSD increases the IOPS performance of the unit by three times, and significantly reduces access times when working from a network share with a very large number of files or directories on the Drobo 5N… (read more)
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 data archive and backups, one must also consider IOPS performance as it relates to as workspace storage. IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per second) performance is measured by how quickly the device can work with small bits of data… (read more)
Data Storage Management: How Drobo Keeps Your Data Safer
When considering data storage management, the single most important factor is protection. Is your data safe? The answer may not be an emphatic “yes” unless you are doing several things the right way, and using the right technologies. No one technology protects you from everything, so answering yes happens when you have the combination of safe storage, reliable backup, offs store protection, and the ability to do all of these regularly and easily. And affordably too, so you have complete protection… (read more)
Drobo Performance: When Your Drives Break
A hard drive failure is a question of when, not if. You need to be prepared and protected to maintain a high level of Drobo performance. Every day in our live demos and on live chat we talk with individuals and business owners who are looking for more info on how they can be better protected. Do you have data storage solutions that you are protecting? According to a poll by SanDisk conducted by Harris Interactive: “Photos are so precious that 64 percent of U.S. adults would not consider destroying their family photo collection for any amount of money, not even for one million dollars.” The folks that contact us for help understand the value of their data. Do you feel your data is worth $1M, and are you doing everything to protect it from inevitable hard drive failure… (read more)
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