The Drobo is the latest generation of the award-winning platform that started it all. It holds true to the unique design & simplicity that has made Drobo the best desktop storage solution for storing & protecting all your data. No storage expertise is required to ensure your data is always safe & protected. Inside every Drobo is the revolutionary Beyond RAID storage technology that protects data against a hard disk crash, yet is simple enough for anyone to use. As long as you have more than a single disk in Drobo, all data on Drobo is safe no matter which hard disk fails. There’s no need to worry about anything else. Leave Your Limitations Behind… Go Beyond RAID Built on our award-winning Beyond RAID technology, the Drobo protects your data without any intervention – even in the event of multiple drive failures. You can even switch from single to dual disk redundancy with a single click, ensuring enterprise-level dual parity data protection when required. Drobo’s with Beyond RAID are also self-healing & have virtual hot-spares. If a drive happens to fail, Drobo will automatically re-layout the data to return to a protected state without disruption. Drobo takes the up front guess work out of determining the amount of capacity you require. Buy the capacity you need today, & when you need more storage, simply replace your smallest drive with a larger one & immediately use that capacity in seconds. You can even mix & match drive brands, capacities & speeds. To further enhance your experience, every Drobo comes with Smart Volume technology. Smart Volumes are thinly provisioned volumes that automatically utilize capacity as needed from a common pool of storage. in addition, as data is deleted, free capacity is returned to that common pool, immediately increasing the available capacity. Beyond RAID along with Smart Volumes deliver next-generation storage technology by bringing together enhanced data protection, reliability, expandability, & ease-of-use.