Built on proven Beyond RAID™ technology, coupled with new & innovative Automated Data-Aware Tiering, the Drobo B1200i delivers a level of automation & technical sophistication usually reserved for more expensive enterprise solutions. All in a product as easy to use as a Drobo. The Drobo B1200i is optimized for Small & Medium Business (SMB) IT to provide reliable, high-performance, & self-optimizing storage for server virtualization, email, & data protection. It integrates seamlessly into your TCP/IP network infrastructure & utilizes the industry-standard i SCSI protocol to provide powerful, yet simple, consolidated storage for your IT environment. Drobo B1200i i SCSI array can hold up to 36TB of raw storage & beyond. To add capacity, simply insert a new hard drive or replace your smallest drive with a larger one, even when all drive bays are full. Unlike traditional RAID systems, the Beyond RAID technology in Drobo enables you to leverage different drive capacities, allowing for continuous expansion as larger drives become available. With Drobo, expansion is automatic & instantaneous & access to data is always maintained, all while protecting you from two simultaneous drive failures. The Drobo B1200i moves beyond the days of manually tuning an array for applications that have different storage requirements. Automated Data-Aware Tiering leverages high-capacity hard disk drives (HDDs) paired with high-performance solid state drives (SSDs) to deliver application-optimized storage that requires no manual tuning. SSD support with Automated Data-Aware Tiering is a available in firmware version 1.1.0 or higher. Similar to business applications, Drobo is ideal for building your first server virtualization cluster, highly available email server, or scalable backup server. Drobo technology has been certified for VMware v Sphere, Symantec Backup Exec, & Veeam Backup environments.