They have reduced the original $699 Drobo price tag by $200, according to Engadget, since the company has received so many pre-orders and decided to make the product more competitive before being released to the public on June 1st, Which in my opinion gives it a much better chance to compete with the rest of the products currently available.
Drobo is simply an “intelligent” multi-drive storage solution for PCs and Macs, sets itself apart from the rest of the competitors by providing an intelligent drive management application (aka Drobo Robot). It has a four drive array that connects via USB and uses it bundled software to handle all of the data management and disk swapping.
Drobo is capable of playing back your media file even during actual swapping/replacement of drive by using a special way of partitioning drives.
Some of the features:
Currently, Drobo only supports being formated in Windows NTFS or Mac HFS+ file systems, but that might changed by the actual launch date, since its software is constantly updated.
to read more on this little “intelligent” robot head over to their main page here and don’t forget to check out the video and the interactive demonstration of how the drive portioning system works here
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