http://www.drobo.com/products/drobopro/

(DroboPro Rack Mount sold separately.)

Not to live on. (Living on your raised capital is what failing start-ups do.) So if they are really seeing all that growth, they need cash to expand.

http://www.drobo.com/products/drobopro/

..are their rather neat little rackmount storage boxes. You need to buy the rails, but that's sometimes the case with other kit of that sort too, even Big Blue have days like that.

and the PR bunny in the vid is sooo hot!!!

this is probably one of the better products out there, which is why they sell like hot cakes....

did i mention the hottie in the vid :D

thier margins are probably quite slim but are going for market share, hopefully they will expand and come out of the depression with a good customer base and expanding market.

oh and we need a WIN! logo...

Rackmount? Yeah we have that.

Drobo makes a nice little unit though Im still at odds on its propritary RAID(?) system.

I love drobo, but the price is too high for the box without the drives

+ drobo only allows the loss of the largest drive while multiple mirrors under ZFS forces 50% loss of storage

+ drobo offered high-speed firewire, so slower usb was not required

- ZFS with checkums can use drives formatted with less hardware CRC overhead, to redeem some lost space from RAID1

- cheaper to build an Intel/AMD OpenSolaris box

- just about as easy to add/swap drives in pairs to allow ZFS to automatically expand the volume

- the volume size under ZFS works while the volume size is not correct under drobo

- write & read acceleration possible with flash under ZFS while drobo gets no benefit

- 16 Gigabyte file system limit in drobo, no such artificial limit in ZFS

yea... i went to the store to check out the drobo, loved the simple design of the drobo, decided on zfs instead