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Drobo

Drobo (formerly called Data Robotics) was founded in 2004. Drobo makes award-winning data storage products for small and medium businesses and individual professionals that provide an unprecedented combination of sophisticated data protection and management features, affordable capacity, and ease-of-use. Based on the patented and proven BeyondRAID™ technology, Drobo's ability to deliver "Big Storage in a Small Box" creates the best storage experience ever for hundreds of thousands of small and medium businesses and individual professionals worldwide, who use it to support their file backup and media archiving, server virtualization and email application needs. To learn more, visit www.drobo.com

Editor's comments:- March 2012 - among other things, Drobo markets a range of iSCSI storage racks aimed at the SMB market. Drobo recently announced that it was offering SSDs as an option in its B1200i range - based on OCZ's Talos SSDs - which are 3.5" SAS SSDs.


Drobo - selected mentions in storage history

In June 2007 - Data Robotics launched a self managing USB connected storage box called Drobo. With slots for 4x 3.5" SATA internal hard drives - the unit automatically provides RAID protection and warns when capacity is running low.

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"The user mood is changing from - can I afford to use SSDs? - to a realization that - I can't afford not to use SSDs."
......from :- year of the enterprise SSD goldrush
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the 3 fastest flash PCIe SSDs - list / lists
You know the sort of thing I mean - where a magazine compares 10 SSDs or a blogger compares 2 SSDs against each other. It would be nice to have a shortlist so that you don't have to waste too much of your own valuable time testing unsuitable candidates wouldn't it?

StorageSearch's long running fastest SSDs directory typically indicates 1 main product in each form factor category but those examples may not be compatible with your own ecosystem.

If so a new article - the 3 fastest PCIe SSDs list (or is it really lists?) may help you cut that Gordian knot. Hmm... you may be thinking that StorageSearch's editor never gives easy answers to SSD questions if more complicated ones are available.
the 3 fastest  PCIe SSDs  - click to read article But in this case you'd be wrong. (I didn't say you'd like the answers, though.) ...read the article
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