I've been trying to find a good comparison or using the Drobo 5N vs 5D + Mac Mini Server (I already have said server) as a local time machine repository for our home machines (mainly Airs, but I have ...

When it debuted several years ago, Data Robotics’ Drobo storage appliance gave small business owners the ability to easily set up a large, redundant pool of storage and to grow it down the road ...

As the cost per megabyte of storage has dropped over the past decade, we've seen a corresponding rise in hard drive capacity at any given price point, but the meteoric growth of drive capacity has led ...

Capacity: Varies depending on the capacity of drives inserted into the five bays and whether single- or dual-drive redundancy has been enabled. As we've noted in earlier reviews of Drobo equipment, ...

The Drobo S can work with versions of Windows going all the way back to Windows XP; it can also work with Mac OS X 10.5 and newer; and the Drobo S even has beta support for Linux. The first step in ...

Let’s have a brief overview of the Drobo just in case you haven’t read up on it. Essentially, it’s a completely self-contained system that takes whatever hard drives you give it (up to 4) and makes ...

As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. TweakTown may also earn commissions from other affiliate partners at no extra cost to you. Drobo's 5N2 is a slight upgrade over the original ...

The Drobo Mini can be a compelling storage device for somebody looking for protected storage and nothing else. You can use drives you already have and you don’t have to worry about matching drive ...

Drobo's products have come a long way over the years. The company started with a 4-bay BeyondRAID array with a FireWire connection that was sold in one form or another for quite a few years, and has ...

Data Robotics' first Drobo model surprised a fair few people; the company billed their external storage array as an "intelligent data robot", making RAID-style redundancy if not glamorous then at ...

When the original USB Drobo was released, it made a big splash, and even earned an Editors’ Choice Award. The sturdy little black box that quickly and efficiently organizes your hard drives to give ...

Despite the prevalence of cloud storage, not everything can be safely tucked away on the nebulous Internet. Sooner or later, hard, local storage will be needed. The problem with these is that most don ...