DroboFs Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Drobo wants Mac users to "Upgrade your RAID"

by Steven Sande (Sep 13th, 2010)

Did you buy one of those "quasi-RAID" storage devices over the last few years? You know, the ones that tried to squeeze a few hard disks into a shiny silver box and call it RAID? In many cases, those devices simply implemented RAID 0 (block-level striping without parity or mirroring) as a way to ...

TUAW and Data Robotics team up for Drobo discounts and giveaways

by Steven Sande (Jul 26th, 2010)

How would you like your choice of a brand-new Drobo S or Drobo FS? The Drobo S (valued at US$799) is a 5-bay storage solution featuring the Data Robotics BeyondRAID technology, with eSATA, FireWire 800, and USB 2.0 ports, The Drobo FS (valued at $699) includes 5 bays and a Gigabit Ethernet port for ...

Data Robotics gives Drobo FS full Time Machine compatibility

by Steven Sande (May 20th, 2010)

When Data Robotics announced the Drobo FS last month, one common complaint among potential buyers was that it doesn't offer native support for doing networked Time Machine backups. Just connecting a Drobo FS to a network of Macs could cause issues for Time Machine backups, since the built-in backup ...

TUAW review: Data Robotics Drobo FS NAS

by Steven Sande (Apr 22nd, 2010)

Network Attached Storage (NAS) is gaining in popularity as an alternative to a home or small office server. A few weeks ago, I reviewed LaCie's Network Space 2, which is a non-expandable 1TB storage solution. For those who want a solution that will be expandable in the future, Data Robotics has ...

Data Robotics announces new Drobo FS

by Steven Sande (Apr 6th, 2010)

Data Robotics has just announced a new member of the Drobo family -- the Drobo FS. The new device is designed to serve as Network Attached Storage with all of the advantages of the Data Robotics BeyondRAID technology, with the added bonus of drop-dead simple setup. In a pre-release interview with ...