Drobo, Intelligent data storage.

Looking for a fancy way to store and backup data at the same time? My friend BT (master of all things good on the internet), linked this to me. It's called Drobo, and it's the world's first storage robot.

At first glance, it looks like a fancy USB drive that holds four hard drives. That's only the beginning. Drobo actually configures the data in real time. If you watch the video, you can remove a hard drive and it'll actually retain all the files on the system.

What does this mean? If a hard drive in the four disk array fails, your data is not lost. Just replace the disk and all your information will still be there. Ran out of disk space? Replace the smallest disk with a larger one, retain data, keep loading crap onto Drobo.

I personally have a computer with a terabyte of disk space. It's literally just a computer holding my hard drives so that I can have storage. I just spent the weekend moving data to bigger drives (accomplished by using external USB drives), and then opening up the computer to move those bigger drives into the computer.

If I had a Drobo, that whole process would have taken me three minutes instead of three days.