Drobo, the “worlds first storage robot”

Posted April 13, 2007 at 10:32 PM by Michael Yurechko

Section: Computers, Hardware, Gadgets / Other, Robots/AI, Peripherals, Storage

Drobo is a robot. Even though he doesn’t look like one, he can certainly do plenty of robot-like things. Drobo comes with four separate drive bays and can intelligently control the data managed on them. Say you’re streaming some media off drive 1, but need to swap out the drive it’s on? No problem for Drobo. Drobo will automatically swap the media to another drive.

Drobo also has some warning lights on the front to let you know which drives are empty or full. It has a decent design, but to be a real robot in my books it has to get some mechanical legs, perhaps eject drives on voice command (office wars 2.0, with hard drives, anyone?).

The $700 price tag is a little steep, especially since it does not include any “starter” drives bundled with the device, but if they add voice ejecting drives on Drobo 2.0, count me in.

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