Does Drobo Make RAID Data Storage Easier?

Storage vendor, Data Robotics, says around Drobo 120,000 units are with customers—mainly high end prosumers and the small office home office (SOHO) and SMB arena. According to this interview with CEO, Tom Buiocchi, on Search Storage, the company's secret to success is the BeyondRAID technology that allows customers to mix and match drives, so they can buy SATA drives from any vendor.

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"How would you define BeyondRAID?: It's actually very complicated engineering. The interface for customers is very simple. It's a red light, green light, yellow light interface, so you know the product is working as it was designed to, or if it needs some help. When you get a different colored light, it tells you what to do. We don't give a thousand choices and a thousand features. We just design the product to run reliably, to self-correct when there are any data problems, and to upgrade on the fly. RAID systems today can't do that."

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