Drobo Drobo SAN Hard Drive Array Business B800i - DR-B800I-2A21
Drobo introduces a new line of sophisticated yet easy-to-use and affordable storage solutions for small and medium businesses. Designed for customers who need critical storage capacity without the complexity and price of legacy storage solutions.Learn more about the product
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Data Robotics Drobo SAN Hard Drive Array Business B800i
Built on proven BeyondRAID technology, the Drobo B800i redefines IT economics by delivering award-winning iSCSI SAN storage and advanced capabilities usually reserved for more expensive enterprise solutions.
The Drobo B800i is optimized for small businesses to provide reliable and high-performance storage to servers running applications like file services, data protection, email, and server virtualization. It integrates seamlessly into your TCP/IP network infrastructure and utilizes the industry-standard iSCSI protocol to provide simple, consolidated storage for your servers.
BeyondRAID Technology
Optimizing Business Applications
simply insert a new hard drive or replace your smallest drive with a larger one, even when all drive bays are full. Unlike traditional RAID systems, the BeyondRAID technology in Drobo enables you to leverage different drive capacities, allowing for continuous expansion as larger drives become available. With Drobo, expansion is automatic and instantaneous and access to data is always maintained.
Similar to business applications, Drobo is ideal for building your first scalable backup server or server virtualization cluster. It has been certified for Symantec Backup Exec, Veeam Backup, VMware vSphere, and Citrix XenServer environments.
Smart Volumes with Thin Provisioning
About iSCSI SANs
Create new volumes up to 16TB in seconds and manage them over time with ease. The innovative and time-saving Smart Volume management technology with Thin Provisioning integrated into the Drobo B800i allows volumes to pull storage from the common pool of disks rather than a specific physical disk allocation. The labor of resizing and migrating volumes is replaced with the simplicity of intelligent engineering.
Unfamiliar with iSCSI? It’s a high-performance protocol that’s become extremely popular storage networking technology in IT environments, but it can often be complex to manage. Drobo B800i changes that by introducing zero-click iSCSI configuration for both Windows and Mac OS X servers.
Protection from Two Drive Failures
Rack Mount Ready, Desktop Quiet
Enable the dual-drive redundancy option to protect your data from failure of up to two hard drives. It's all done with a single click and without ever losing access to your data. Running out of space? Switch back to single-drive redundancy at any time. Unlike moving between traditional RAID 5 and RAID 6, there's no need to reformat or migrate data from the Drobo B800i, potentially saving you hours or days of downtime.
Drobo B800i can be deployed in a server room for IT use or on a desktop for workgroup sharing of storage, thanks to its compact design and quiet operation. Dual smart fans automatically manage their speeds to optimize cooling and minimize operating noise. (Drobo B800i Rack Mount sold separately.)
General
Device Type
Hard drive array
Enclosure Type
3U
Width
12.2 in
Depth
14.1 in
Height
5.5 in
Weight
16.1 lbs
Chassis
Built-in Devices
LED panel
Installed Devices / Modules Qty
0
Supported Devices / Modules Qty
8
Supported Drives
Serial ATA-300
Storage
HDD Array External Interface
Gigabit Ethernet
Storage Controller
Type
Serial ATA - integrated ( Gigabit Ethernet )
Controller Interface Type
Serial ATA-300
Data Transfer Rate
300 MBps
Max Storage Devices Qty
8
Hard Drive
Type
Hot-swap - plug-in module
Capacity
0
Expansion / Connectivity
Expansion Bays
8 (total) / 8 (free) x hot-swap - 3.5" x 1/2H
Interfaces
2 x Ethernet 1000Base-T - RJ-45
System Requirements
OS Required
Linux, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Apple MacOS X 10.5.6 or later, Apple MacOS X Server 10.5.6 or later, Microsoft Windows Vista / XP / 7, Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Miscellaneous
Cables Included
2 x network cable - 6 ft
Software Included
Drobo Dashboard
Compliant Standards
FCC Class B certified, UL, TUV, VCCI, CISPR 22 Class B, cUL, CB, ICES-003 Class B, FCC Part 15, MIC, AS/NZS 3548, RoHS, WEEE, BSMI CNS 13438, ACA, REACH