Drobo, makers of award-winning data storage products for businesses and professionals, today announced the general availability and shipping of its fastest and most technologically advanced networked storage, the new Drobo 5N.
The Drobo 5N further expands Drobo's new line of professional storage products, which includes the recently released Drobo 5D and the Drobo Mini, by leveraging the company's patent-pending SSD and tiering technology for the first time with networked storage.
The Drobo 5N further expands Drobo's new line of professional storage products, which includes the recently released Drobo 5D and the Drobo Mini, by leveraging the company's patent-pending SSD and tiering technology for the first time with networked storage.
Drobo 5N is unusual among NAS devices because it is intended for solid-state drives rather than hard drives.
HDDs will work fine of course, but Drobo went through extra trouble to implement patent-pending SSD and tiering technology.
It is the first time networked storage gets anything of the sort, but Drobo went further and supplemented all that with "Drobo's unique ease-of-use and flexibility," in the company's own words.
Drobo developed the Data-Aware Tiering technology with the idea of HDD+SSD setups in mind. While high-capacity hard disks are still optimal for long-term storage and backup, SSDs will provide an unprecedented speed boost, one that Gigabit Ethernet networks will be able to fully appreciate.
Data retention and safety features are available as well. In addition to preventing unwanted access, Drobo 5N makes sure the failure of a single drive doesn't affect the others. It also ensures that data corruption does not happen when power is cut abruptly.
Finally, as seen on the product page, Drobo 5N has five bays with SATA III support (SATA 6.0 Gbps). The starting price is of $599 / 451 Euro.
Source: Techpowerup.com
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