Drobo B1200i with (12) WD2000FYYG drives 24TB

The Drobo 12 Bay iSCSI SAN for Business (B1200i) is an twelve-drive iSCSI storage array with multi-host support making it ideal for small to medium businesses (SMBs) and departments looking to consolidate storage across multiple servers.

Featuring twelve-drive capacity, multi-host support, three iSCSI ports, and up to 255 Smart Volumes, Drobo 12-bay iSCSI SAN storage for Business delivers features and performance traditionally reserved for more expensive solutions.

• Multi-Host Connectivity The Drobo 12-bay iSCSI SAN storage for Business connects seamlessly to your existing TCP/IP network and utilizes the industry-standard iSCSI protocol to provide simple, consolidated storage for your servers.


• Up to 12 Disks of Instant Expansion to 32TB 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 twelve-drive bays are full. Unlike traditional RAID systems, the BeyondRAID technology found on Drobo 12-bay iSCSI SAN storage for Business enables you to mix and match capacities, drive brands and speeds. This allows for continuous expansion as drive capacities grow. With Drobo, expansion is automatic, instantaneous and access to data is always maintained.


• 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.


• Dual High-Speed iSCSI Interfaces Unfamiliar with iSCSI? It’s an industry-standard, high performance protocol that has become extremely popular with businesses and individuals who demand high data storage throughput, but it can often be complex to manage. Drobo changes that by introducing zero-click iSCSI connection creation with optional LUN-level CHAP authentication for both Windows and Mac OS X.


• 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 time saving Smart Volume management technology integrated into Drobo 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.


• Simplify Your VMware Environment Storage is an integral part of a successful virtualization strategy. Drobo has been tested for use with VMware to eliminate risk from your storage decision and help accelerate deployment of your virtual server environment.


• Rack Mount Ready, Desktop Quiet Drobo 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.


• Modular design The B1200i model delivers enhanced availability and serviceability for environments hosting business-critical applications Support for high-performance drives SAS or SATA mechanical disks in the same system, support for SSDs Data-Aware Tiering The intellegence built into the Drobo model B1200i allows it to optimizing data layout and drive useage for "hot" workloads

Key features of BeyondRAID include:

• Data protection against two simultaneous hard disk failures


• Instant capacity expansion without downtime


• Self-management


• Automatic healing

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