Drobo Data Robot Review

So I have a Drobo but I may be selling it but only for a reason that most people wont care about.

Drobo is the worlds first Data Storage Robot that serves as a 4 drive external hard drive and promotes no data loss. Esentually it keeps two copies of your file on separate drives which is really cool. What is really cool is that you can even swap a drive Drobo is on and running. So if you want to upgrade a drive, just take it out and put in the new one. You must only do this on one drive at a time and wait a while before swapping another because when you took the old drive out, Drobo lost the second copy of your data and it will have to format and copy the files to the new drive. Status lights will tell you when this is finished.

Cons: No Network interface, Drobo is USB only. I am using Drobo as data backup even though it is not marketed that way. The Drobo folks would like you to use and rely on Drobo as your one device to store files not as backup.

And finally the reason I am not keeping it, it gets fairly loud. This would not normally be an issue for most who turn their computer off at night but I don’t for data backup reasons and I sleep in the same room as my computer.