 click to download rebate form, and view terms and details Special OWC Bundle! Drobo 8bay FireWire 800 & USB 2.0 Storage Enclosure
W/ 8 Seagate 1.0TB Hard Drives! 8.0TB Total Storage!
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DroboPro™ is the first business class storage array that manages itself. Engineered to be both simple and scalable, the revolutionary BeyondRAID™ technology incorporated into DroboPro frees businesses from making the difficult and confining choices commonly associated with storage management. Why trade simplicity for safety, or stability for expandability? DroboPro delivers both enterprise-level data safety and unprecedented expandability, featuring single and dual disk redundancy combined with instant capacity expansion. Once you experience DroboPro, you just might forget the differences between all eleven traditional RAID levels. If you do, don't panic. You're experiencing the peace of mind that comes with every Drobo® product. |
Up to 8 Disks of Instant Expansion to 16TB and Beyond
  Grow your storage in line with your data capacity needs with minimal effort. To add capacity, simply insert a new hard disk or replace your smallest disk with a larger one, even when all eight disk bays are full. Unlike traditional RAID systems, the BeyondRAID technology found in DroboPro enables you to efficiently mix and match disk brands, capacities and speeds. This allows for continuous expansion as disk capacities grow. With DroboPro expansion is automatic, instantaneous, and access to data is always maintained.
No Headache Dual Disk Redundancy
 The DroboPro Dual Disk Redundancy option protects against the simultaneous failure of up to two hard disks. It's all done with a single click, without ever losing access to their data. Running out of space? Switch DroboPro back to single disk redundancy with a click. Unlike moving between RAID 5 and RAID 6, there’s no need to reformat or migrate data off of the array, potentially saving hours or days.
Triple Interface Featuring iSCSI
DroboPro attaches directly to a server or workstation that requires storage, or to a shared server or workstation on a network that can provide access to multiple clients. Interface options include:
   iSCSI (using Gigabit Ethernet)- FireWire 800
- USB 2.0
Unfamiliar with iSCSI? It's a high performance protocol that has become extremely popular with businesses, but it can often be complex to manage. DroboPro reduces the complexity of iSCSI by introducing zero configuration connection establishment for both Windows and Intel-based Macs running OS X. |
The Virtues of Smart Volumes
Smart Volumes allow customers to create new volumes in seconds and manage 16TB volumes over time with ease. The timesaving Smart Volume management technology integrated into DroboPro 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.
Rack Mount Ready, Desktop Quiet
  DroboPro fits into a rack mount environment or can sit on a desktop. Dual smart fans automatically manage their speed to optimize both cooling and operating noise. (DroboPro rack-mount sold separately.)
BeyondRAID lerverages 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 virtual platform. This allows for the removal of 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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| DroboPro Product Specifications: |
Drives: |
Accommodates from one to eight 3.5” SATA I / SATA II hard disk drives of any manufacturer, capacity, spindle speed and/or
cache. No carriers or tools required |
| Interfaces: |
iSCSI (utilizes Gigabit Ethernet - Intel Macs only), FireWire 800 (FireWire 400 compatible) and USB 2.02 |
| Dimensions: |
12.17” width x 5.46” height x 14.1” length
DroboPro Rack Mount sold separately (3U high in a standard 19” rack) |
| Weight: |
16 lbs. 3 ozs. (without hard disks or packaging) |
Operating Temperature: |
Operating temperature: 10°C-35°C (50°-95°F); Non-operating (storage): -10°-60°C (14°-140°F); Altitude (operating): 2,438 m (8,000 ft.); Operating humidity: 5% - 80% |
| Power: |
180W internal power supply. Power-saving automatic hard disk spin-down option |
| AC Voltage: |
AC Input: 100/240 VAC, 1.8/0.75 A, 50/60 Hz |
| Cables Included: |
Ethernet (1 x 6’), FireWire 800 (1 x 6’), USB 2.0 (1 x 6’) and power (1 x 6’) |
| Software: |
DroboPro Resource CD with Drobo Dashboard application (Windows and Mac OS X), Help files and electronic documentation |
| File System Support: |
NTFS, HFS+, FAT32 and EXT3 |
| System Requirements: |
Microsoft Windows XP (Service Pack 3), Vista (Service Pack 1), Server 2003, and Server 2008; Apple’s Mac OS X 10.4.11 or
greater and OS X Server 10.4.11 or greater (Mac OS X 10.5.6 or greater recommended for optimal iSCSI performance and
reliability); Linux using EXT33 |
- iSCSI support for Windows XP Server and Vista utilizes the Microsoft Windows iSCSI Initiator; for OS X Drobo Dashboard is required as OS X does not have an
integrated iSCSI initiator. Drobo Dashboard includes iSCSI initiators for Windows and OS X free of charge and enables zero click iSCSI connection establishment. iSCSI support is not compatible with Power PC Macs. Intel machines only.
- The creation of multiple Smart Volumes will be supported through Drobo Dashboard v1.5.0.
- Linux support currently in Beta.
Warranty: 2 Year Manufacturer Warranty |
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The Seagate® Barracuda® 7200.12 hard drive combines proven technology and components with industry-leading manufacturing expertise to deliver
1.0 TB of sustainable desktop storage with 32-MB cache.
By combining sustainable Seagate technology and components with industry-leading volume manufacturing, this Seagate® Barracuda® 7200.12 drive delivers 1 TB of green, low-power yet high-performance, desktop storage. It embodies the highest levels
of reliability, performance and capacity. And this
latest generation is a leader in environmentally
friendly storage.
After years of pioneering research at Seagate, perpendicular recording is now a
proven technology. It increases capacity and
dependability by storing data vertically, rather
than horizontally. And vertically stored data bits
mean increased data density—which means
higher performance to increase productivity.
Key Advantages
- Sustainable technology for a green world:
- Typically 70 percent or more of the materials used to build the drive is recycled.
- Complies with the RoHS directive
- 12th generation of the world’s most popular desktop hard drive
- Ships with the most reliable and proven perpendicular magnetic recording technology
- Delivers high performance:
- 160-MB/s maximum sustained data rate
- Up to 3 Gb/s instantaneous burst
Additional Features
- Best-in-class environmental specifications and
reliability features.
- Adaptive Fly Height offers consistent read/write
performance from the beginning to the end of
your computing workload.
- Clean Sweep automatically calibrates your
drive.
- Enhanced G-Force Protection™ defends
against handling damage.
- Seagate SoftSonic™ motor enables ultra-quiet
operation.
Best-Fit Applications
- Workstations
- Desktop RAID
- Gamer PCs
- High-end PCs
- Mainstream PCs
- USB/FireWire/eSATA personal external storage
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The Eco-Friendly Choice
The Seagate® Barracuda® 7200.12 drive delivers power
savings without sacrificing performance. Customers
can manufacture eco-friendly PC and external storage
systems that meet energy-savings requirements.
The drive combines proven technology with expert
manufacturing to deliver up to 1 TB of desktop storage.
Customers can have the best of both worlds—top harddrive
performance and a high-capacity drive with a very
small eco-footprint. Seagate minimizes the impact of
our products and operations on the environment with
efficiency measures, such as replacing or renovating
less-efficient equipment, resulting in a 20 percent
increase in production efficiency on a per-hard-drive
basis. This delivered a 158.93 million kWh savings in
six months, or enough energy to power nearly 15,000
U.S. homes for one year. Seagate also has deployed
aggressive waste minimization and recycling
programs in facilities worldwide.
Seagate hard drives have long been produced
with the environment in mind, and not just with
low power consumption. With Seagate and the
Barracuda 7200.12 drive, our customers can
have the best of both worlds—top hard-drive
performance and the satisfaction of knowing they
are using a high-capacity drive with a very small
eco-footprint.
The Barracuda product family complies with the
RoHS directive on hazardous materials. |
| Specifications |
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| Model Number |
ST3100528AS |
| Interface |
SATA 3.0Gb/s |
| Cache |
32 MBytes |
| Capacity |
1.0TB* |
| Guaranteed Sectors |
1,953,525,168 |
| Physical |
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| Height (max) |
26.1 mm (1.028 inches) |
| Width (max) |
101.6 mm (4.000 inches) |
| Length (max) |
146.99 mm (5.787 inches) |
| Weight (typical) |
622 grams (1.371 pounds) |
| Performance |
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| Transfer Rate, Max Ext (MB/s) |
300 |
| Sustained Data Rate OD (MB/s) |
125 |
| Spindle Speed |
7,200 rpm |
| Average latency |
4.16 msec |
| Random read seek time |
<8.5 msec |
| Random write seek time |
<9.5 msec |
| Reliability |
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| Contact Start-Stops |
50,000 |
| Annual Failure Rate |
0.34% |
| Nonrecoverable Read Errors per Bits Read |
1 per 10E14 |
| Limited Warranty (years) |
3 |
| Power |
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| Maximum start current, DC |
2.0 amps |
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* One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity.
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