The word “robot” has been used so commonly, even extended to only gadgets or devices that provide some kind of automation to certain tasks. Data Robotics, a company, which they claimed they’re like robot in handling data, has just released a new product, Drobo. Drobo is claimed to be the world’s first storage robot, as simply as it can detect and format up to a quartet of 3.5″ SATA drives of any capacity automatically. It knows nothing about cooking nice food or serving you with wine. It’s only a good robot for handling your data.
In terms of data handling, it can handle a wide range of maintenance tasks, which are used to be carried out your expensive IT department. Those tasks can be automated by Droba including creating redundancy, sensing and repairing data corruption. It’s compatible with both Mac and PC platforms, the Drobo is hooked up via USB 2.0.
It’s got four colored LEDs as the status indicator of each bay. When the LED shows yellow, meaning that it’s a warning sign, which you’re running out of storage space pretty soon. If the LED is flashing red, well, your hard disk is in deep shit – failure. Nowadays, every company is having plan to slash cost, perhaps a data robot like this, which costs you only $699, could help you cut down the number of manpower required for maintaining your precious data.
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May 7th, 2007 at 6:52 am
[...] If you aren’t forgetful, you should remember Drobo, the data robot that handles the routing and backup of your data automatically. Drobo initially was offered with a pretty expensive price, which it cost about $699.00. Now, it’s got about 30% price cut, which it costs only $499.00. If it was because of that Drobo was overly priced that made you failed to make up your mind whether to invest $699.00 for making the life of your IT department easier . Now with a price cut of 30%, you should consider to get one at once. The price drop was due to decreased production cost. [...]
November 17th, 2010 at 8:03 am
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