Data Robotics
| Private | |
| Industry |
Computer hardware Computer data storage |
| Founded | San Jose, California, U.S. (May 2005) |
| Founder |
Geoff Barrall Julian Terry |
| Headquarters | San Jose, California, U.S. |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Mihir H. Shah, CEO Mike Edwards, CFO Rod Harrison, CTO John Apps, VP Operations Tom Wong, VP Sales Samina Subedar, Marketing |
| Products | Drobo |
| Website | drobo |
Drobo is the name of a series of products classified as external storage devices for computers. They are made of different types including DAS, SAN, and NAS appliances made by Drobo, Inc. Current Drobo devices can house up to four, five, eight, or twelve 3.5" or 2.5" Serial ATA or Serial Attached SCSI hard disk drives and connect with a computer or network via USB 2.0, USB 3.0, FireWire 800, eSATA, Gigabit Ethernet or Thunderbolt. Drobo devices are primarily designed to allow installation and removal of hard disk drives without requiring manual data migration, and also for increasing storage capacity of the unit without downtime. The company Drobo, Inc. changed its name from Data Robotics in 2011 since the familiarity with the Drobo name (which until then had only been the name of their product line) far exceeded the Data Robotics name. Drobo, Inc. merged with Connected Data, Inc. in June 2013, with the new company taking the Connected Data name. In May 2015, Drobo was acquired by an investment group composed of seasoned tech executives and changed the company name to Drobo, Inc.
In July 2008, Drobo announced a 2nd generation model, which offered a faster core processor, optimized firmware, better USB 2.0 performance and a pair of FireWire 800 ports, which are compatible with FireWire 400-to-800 cables and adapters.
Firmware is available to support drives in excess of 3TB (firmware v1.4.0.).
In early 2009, Drobo announced a new model called the DroboPro which is physically larger than the Drobo and offers the option of being mounted in a 19-inch rack. The DroboPro has the increased capacity of 8 drive bays rather than 4 in the original model, giving a 32 TB theoretical maximum with the current 4 TB drives. It also adds "Dual Disk Redundancy" akin to RAID 6. iSCSI via Gigabit Ethernet has been added alongside existing USB and FireWire 800/400 interfaces. However, the iSCSI implementation currently only supports connection to a single server and unlike the Drobo FS, the Ethernet interface cannot be used for other networking protocols such as , , or SMB.
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