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DroboElite™ offers the best data storage experience
ever for small to medium businesses (SMBs) and departments looking
to consolidate storage across multiple servers. As the most powerful
and flexible Drobo platform engineered to date, DroboElite redefines
storage economics by delivering advanced features and performance
usually reserved for more expensive solutions. Built on the proven
BeyondRAID™ technology, DroboElite provides enterprise-level data
safety and unprecedented expandability in a virtualized architecture
that is both self-managing and self-healing. Dual iSCSI ports and
significant performance enhancements deliver best-in-class performance
ideal for consolidating storage or adding capacity to both virtualized
and non-virtualized computing environments.
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Multi-Host Connectivity
Have multiple servers that need storage? No problem. The DroboElite
connects seamlessly to your existing TCP/IP network and utilizes
the industry-standard iSCSI protocol to provide simple, consolidated
storage for your servers. |
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Up to 8 Disks of Instant
Expansion to 16TB and Beyond
Grow your storage to meet your data capacity needs with
minimal effort. To add capacity, simply insert a new hard
drive or replace your smallest drive with a larger one, even
when all eight-drive bays are full. Unlike traditional RAID
systems, the BeyondRAID technology found on DroboElite enables
you to mix and match capacities, drive brands and speeds.
This allows for continuous expansion as drive capacities grow.
With DroboElite, expansion is automatic, instantaneous and
access to data is always maintained. |
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No Headache Dual-Drive Redundancy
Enable the dual-drive redundancy option to protect against the
simultaneous failure of up to two hard drives. It’s all done with
a single click, without ever losing access to your data. Running
out of space? You can click to switch back to single drive redundancy.
Unlike moving between traditional RAID 5 and RAID 6, there’s no
need to reformat or migrate data off of the array, potentially saving
you hours or days of downtime.
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The Virtues of Smart
Volumes™
Create new volumes in seconds and manage up to 255 x 16TB volumes
over time with ease. The innovative and timesaving Smart Volume
management technology integrated into DroboElite allows volumes
to pull storage from the common pool of drives rather than a specific
physical drive allocation, eliminating the need to manage capacity
at the volume level. Smart Volumes are also data aware, allowing
deleted data blocks to be returned to the common pool and ensuring
that volumes remain as efficient as possible over time. |
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Simplify Your VMware Environment |
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Storage is an integral part of a successful virtualization
strategy. DroboElite has been certified for use with VMware
vSphere 4 to eliminate risk from your storage decision and help
accelerate deployment of your virtual server environment. |
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Rack Mount Ready, Desktop
Quiet
DroboElite is equally at home in a rack mount environment as it
is on your desktop. Dual smart fans automatically manage their speeds
to optimize both cooling and minimize operating noise. |
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What is BeyondRAID?
BeyondRAID leverages the same underlying data protection methodologies
as traditional RAID, including mirroring and striping with parity;
however, BeyondRAID applies these algorithms on top of a robust
and flexible storage virtualization platform. This allows for the
removal of the limitations and drawbacks normally associated with
RAID.
Key benefits of BeyondRAID include:
- Data protection against hard disk failure
- Instant capacity expansion without downtime
- Self-management
- Automatic healing
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