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OWC Bundle Special 6TB Drobo Bundle! - Drobo 4bay FireWire 800 & USB 2.0 Storage Enclosure w/four (4) Drobo Certified model WD GP2 1.5TB SATA Drives. 1 Year Drobo Warranty, 3 Year WD Hard Drive Warranty. (DRIDR04DD10B6WB)

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drobo, 4WD hard drives
Special OWC Bundle! Drobo 4bay FireWire 800 & USB 2.0 Storage Enclosure
W/ 4 Western Digital Caviar Green 1.5TB (Drobo certified firmware) Hard Drives! 6.0TB Total Storage!

 

No Headache Data Redundancy

Drobo utilizes a revolutionary storage technology that makes it simple for anyone to use, yet is powerful enough for business. Once you experience the power of Drobo, the idea of keeping multiple external drives or a RAID 5 array will seem as antiquated as that 28.8Kbps modem in the back of your closet.

Incomparable Expandability

Your library of data grows every moment. Now, your storage solution expands in seconds, too. Drobo holds up to four hard drives, can expand at any time, and supports up to 16TB on a single volume as disk sizes increase. Choose how big you want your Drobo today with any combination of drives capacities.

 

 

Speed Demon: FireWire 800 & USB 2.0

Why compromise? Safety and accessibility now go hand in hand. Experience Drobo with both FireWire 800 and USB 2.0. It’s the data protection and peace of mind you need with the performance and interface you want.

DroboAppsDroboApps: Community-created apps

DroboApps enable customers to interact with their Drobo and DroboShare in exciting and novel ways that everyone from typical home users to Linux enthusiasts will appreciate. DroboApps opens up a world of possibilities including, iTunes' music server, UPnP and DLNA media streaming, BitTorrent's downloading, FTP and Web server functionality and remote access via the Yoics' client, among others.


Hard Drives a la carte

Unlike other storage solutions, Drobo allows you to purchase as much or as little storage as you like up front. Since you can expand at any time, Drobo is the right solution for your budget.


Mac, Windows, Linux*
Drobo works with all three major operating system platforms and their native file systems.

*Linux support currently in Beta.

 


Features

Go Faster with FireWire 800. Vastly Improved USB 2.0.
With FireWire 800 alongside USB 2.0 and an upgraded core processor, Drobo is now the fastest product in its class. It is the perfect solution for both primary and backup storage of large media and productivity files such as video, photos, music, audio, and troves of documents and spreadsheets. In fact, even if you’re now using USB 2.0, the new Drobo is up to three times as fast its predecessor in typical usage.

Consumer Mindset, Enterprise Feature Set.
Drobo was designed to meet a stringent design requirement: Anyone should be able to use Drobo regardless of technical experience. It is ready to go out of the box and will always stay that way. That’s why Drobo is considered a storage robot—it does all the work of managing an enterprise-grade your storage system for you.

No Software or Drivers are Needed!
Drobo’s magic comes from the software that’s built into the hardware called BeyondRAID™ that you’ll never need to configure. Drobo does absolutely everything for you from “automagically” expanding capacity when you add a drive, to self-healing around drive failures and data errors. If you’re the geeky type, Drobo has an optional software utility, Drobo Dashboard, that shows you what Drobo is up to and adds advanced functionality if you desire it.


Drobo Product Specifications

Four Bay Disk Interface 3.5"
SATA I or SATA II hard disk drives
Full or half-height, no carriers required
Choose the drive manufacturer, capacity (mixed capacities ok), and spindle speed or cache that fits your current storage needs
Capacity
Continuously upgradeable with larger and faster drives.
Host Interface
FireWire 800 High Speed USB 2.0
Max Sustained Transfer Rate
FireWire 800: Up to 52MB/s reads & 34MB/s writes
USB 2.0: Up to 30MB/s reads & 24MB/s writes
Drobo's Size: Width Height Length
Inches 6.3 6.3 10.7
mm 152.4 160.0 271.8

Power
Idle system (standby, drives off) = 5 watts
Typical idle system - idle, drive spin down mode (one drive) = 12 watts
Typical busy system (four drives) = 40 watts

Input
100-240V AC, 50/60 Hz

Box Content

  • Drobo storage robot
  • 6' USB 2.0 cable
  • 6' FireWire 800 cable
  • External power supply w/U.S.110V AC power cord
  • User Guide and Quick Start Instructions
  • Drobo Resource CD includes:
  • Drobo Dashboard Software
    • Help files
    • How-to Videos
    • Electronic Documentation

Operating System Support

Windows 2000
(Professional, Server, Advanced Server)
Windows 2003 Server
Windows XP

(Home, Professional, Media Center Edition)
Windows Vista
(Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate)
Apple OS-X 10.4 and later

File System Options

Windows: NTFS
Mac OS X: HFS+
Cross-Platform: FAT32
Linux: EXT3

System Management

Automatic (No software required)
Optional Drobo Dashboard Software Included

Certification: Emissions

FCC Part 15 Class B and Safety: UL, cUL

Warranty

1 Year Limited Warranty

Security

Kensington lock port
(lock not included)

 

 

WD Caviar® Green
SATA Hard Drives
1.5 TB, 32 MB Cache, SATA 3 Gb/s

Reduced power consumption
Environmentally responsible
Lower cost of ownership


Cool, quiet, eco-friendly.

WD Caviar Green drives use less power and support quieter, cooler-running desktop PCs and external storage devices.


As hard drive capacities increase, the power required to run those drives increases as well. WD Caviar Green drives make it possible for energy-conscious customers to build systems with higher capacities and the right balance of system performance, ensured reliability, and energy conservation.

Reduced power consumption - WD has reduced power consumption by up to 40 percent compared to standard desktop drives with the combination of WD's IntelliSeek™, NoTouch™, and IntelliPower™ technologies.

Helps enable eco-friendly PCs - WD Caviar Green drives yield an average drive power savings of 4-5 watts over standard desktop drives making it possible for our energy-conscious customers to build systems with higher capacities and the right balance of system performance, ensured reliability, and energy conservation.

Cool and quiet - GreenPower™ technology yields lower operating temperatures for increased reliability and low acoustics for ultra-quiet PCs and external drives.

Massive capacity - Capacities up to 2 TB offer the most available capacity for storage-intensive programs and space-hungry operating systems, like Window Vista®, with plenty of room left over for photos, music, and video.

Perfect for external drives - External drive manufacturers can eliminate the need for a fan in a high-capacity product with a WD Caviar Green drive, the coolest and quietest in its class.

IntelliPower - A fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance.

IntelliSeek - Calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, noise, and vibration.

NoTouch ramp load technology - The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection in transit.

Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) - Employs PMR technology to achieve even greater areal density.

StableTrac™ - The motor shaft is secured at both ends to reduce system-induced vibration and stabilize platters for accurate tracking, during read and write operations. (2 TB models only)

Low power spin-up - WD Caviar Green drives consume less current during startup allowing lower peak loads.

Advanced power technology - Electronic components deliver best-in-class low power consumption for reduced power requirements and increased reliability.

Ideal For

Environmentally friendly PCs and external storage requiring lower power consumption
and cool, quiet operation.


Specifications

Performance Specifications
Model WDGWD15EADS with Drobo certified firmware (click here for more info)
Rotational Speed IntelliPower *
Buffer Size 32 MB
Average Latency 5.60 ms (nominal)
Start/Stop Cycles 50,000 minimum
Warranty 3-year Limited Warranty
*A fine-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate, and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings
and solid performance. Additionally, GreenPower drives consume less current during start up
allowing more drives to spin up simultaneously resulting in faster system readiness.
Seek Times
Read Seek Time 8.9 ms
   
Transfer Rates
Buffer To Host (Serial ATA) 3 Gb/s (Max)
Buffer To Disk 1,156 Mb/s
   
Physical Specifications
Formatted Capacity 1,500,301 MB
Capacity 1.5 TB
Interface SATA 3 Gb/s
User Sectors Per Drive 2,930,277,168
   
Physical Dimensions
English
Height 1.028 Inches (Max)
Length 5.787 Inches (Max)
Width 4.00 Inches (± 0.010 inch)
Weight 1.61 Pounds
   
Metric
Height 26.1 mm (Max)
Length 147 mm (Max)
Width 101.6 mm
Weight 0.73 kg
   
   
Environmental Specifications
Shock
Operating Shock (Read) 65G, 2 ms
Non-operating Shock 300G, 1 ms
   
Acoustics
Idle Mode 25 dBA (average)
Seek Mode 0 29 dBA (average)
Seek Mode 3 26 dBA (average)
   
Vibration
Operating
Linear 20-300 Hz, 0.75 G (0 to peak)
Random 10-300 Hz, 0.008 g² / Hz
   
Non-operating
Low Frequency 5-20 Hz, 0.195 inches (double amplitude)
High Frequency 20-500 Hz, 4.0G (0 to peak)
   
Electrical Specifications
Current Requirements
Power Dissipation
Read/Write 6.00 Watts
Idle 3.7 Watts
Standby 0.80 Watts
Sleep 0.80 Watts
 

 

 

 

 

 

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