Claim an extra &163;50 off your Drobo S when ordering by March 31st. Simply order today & then claim your rebate of &163;50 from Drobo. The World's Most Advanced USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0 Storage Array In addition to blazing fast transfer speeds for creative professionals & small businesses, the all-new Drobo S features USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0 technology that delivers the most expandable, future-proof solution on the market today. Drobo S offers an unbeatable combination of automated protection, instant & perpetual expansion, & high performance, making it ideal for all of your primary & backup storage needs. Data Protection Made Simple Built on award-winning Beyond RAID technology with single- or dual-drive redundancy, Drobo S protects your data without user interaction, even in the event of multiple drive failures. It can hold up to five hot-swappable drives, for on-the-fly drive capacity expansion with zero downtime. Protection from Two Drive Failures Enable the dual-drive redundancy option to protect your data from 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? Switch back to single-drive redundancy at any time. Unlike moving between traditional RAID 5 & RAID 6, there's no need to reformat or migrate data from the Drobo S, potentially saving you hours or days of downtime. Your Personal Speed Demon: USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0, e SATA, Fire Wire 800 Have a need for speed? With the new USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0 interface on the Drobo S, data transfer is up to 50% faster than Fire Wire 800. USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0 offers backward compatibility with all existing USB (Universal Serial Bus) 2.0 systems. & the Drobo S features a triple interface with e SATA & Fire Wire 800 to ensure that you'll have a high-performance connection for virtually any system. Self-Healing Technology With the self-healing technology now incorporated into Drobo S, your data is safer than ever. Even when sitting idle, Drobo S continually examines the blocks & sectors on every drive, flagging questionable areas. This preemptive"scrubbing" helps ensure your data is being written only to the healthy areas of your drives & that your data is always safe. Even if a drive fails, Drobo S keeps your data in the safest possible state, utilizing the available space on the remaining healthy drives.