# Drobo, the World’s First Storage Robot **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 30, 2007, 1:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drobo-the-world-s-first-storage-robot/34631 "2007-08-30T13:23:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 2:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drobo-the-world-s-first-storage-robot/34631/21 "2007-12-20T14:03:40Z")
> [@RobHimself](#): > > And who the fuck buys one of thes for kids pictures? think man, think… why would someone have 100s of gigs of “kiddie pics” ---
**Author:** ![RobHimself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e480ec/32.png) [@RobHimself](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RobHimself)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 5:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drobo-the-world-s-first-storage-robot/34631/22 "2007-12-21T05:55:26Z")
> [@Nikuk](#): > > think man, think… > > why would someone have 100s of gigs of “kiddie pics” giggity giggity!!! side note the overnight shipping wasnt put in fast enough. ---
**Author:** ![RobHimself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e480ec/32.png) [@RobHimself](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RobHimself)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 12:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drobo-the-world-s-first-storage-robot/34631/23 "2007-12-26T12:41:56Z")
Came in today, popped in 2 ! TB drives and she is reading 923 gigs of useable storeage. Everything is pretty much plug and play. The initial set up was fucking silly easy. Packaging is pretty funny. It was a brown carboard box and the inside is colord black. The drobo itself is wrapped in ablack cloth. ---
**Author:** ![Boarderx192](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b782af/32.png) [@Boarderx192](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Boarderx192)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 12:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drobo-the-world-s-first-storage-robot/34631/24 "2007-12-27T00:54:23Z")
What happens when you take out one of the drives and upgrade it to something larger or whatever? How do you put your other info onto the new drive if its all split up among all the HDD in there? Am I missing something? ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 5:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drobo-the-world-s-first-storage-robot/34631/25 "2007-12-27T05:33:55Z")
RAID technology, it rebuilds based on what’s missing. I would guess anyway. ---
**Author:** ![RobHimself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e480ec/32.png) [@RobHimself](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RobHimself)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 5:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drobo-the-world-s-first-storage-robot/34631/26 "2007-12-27T05:44:00Z")
> [@AWDrifter](#): > > RAID technology, it rebuilds based on what’s missing. > I would guess anyway. Yup. Its pretty much similiar to raid 5 but will work with any size drives where raid pretty much only utilizes the size of your smallest drive. If you go to the site and watch the demos you can see them streaming videos and copying files when he pulls a drive and it never misses a beat. Very cool stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 5:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drobo-the-world-s-first-storage-robot/34631/27 "2007-12-27T05:49:30Z")
And you need at least three drives.(I think) ---
**Author:** ![RobHimself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e480ec/32.png) [@RobHimself](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RobHimself)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 6:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drobo-the-world-s-first-storage-robot/34631/28 "2007-12-27T06:12:56Z")
In raid 5 yes. The drobo can run with 2. ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 6:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drobo-the-world-s-first-storage-robot/34631/29 "2007-12-27T06:14:49Z")
> [@AWDrifter](#): > > And you need at least three drives.(I think) Yes you need 3 drives for RAID 5 ---
**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 11:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drobo-the-world-s-first-storage-robot/34631/30 "2008-01-10T11:46:25Z")
> [@RobHimself](#): > > Came in today, popped in 2 ! TB drives and she is reading 923 gigs of useable storeage. Everything is pretty much plug and play. The initial set up was fucking silly easy. Packaging is pretty funny. It was a brown carboard box and the inside is colord black. The drobo itself is wrapped in ablack cloth. Update? No concerns? ---
**Author:** ![RobHimself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e480ec/32.png) [@RobHimself](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RobHimself)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 11:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drobo-the-world-s-first-storage-robot/34631/31 "2008-01-10T11:48:52Z")
well we are already in need of more drives but thats not drobos fault. Everything is great with it thus far. Once we get more TB drives for it we will know how sweet the expanding works. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 11:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drobo-the-world-s-first-storage-robot/34631/32 "2008-01-10T11:55:41Z")
Keep us updated.(Please) ---
**Author:** ![RuBiCaNT](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rubicant/32/7622_2.png) [@RuBiCaNT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RuBiCaNT)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 11:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drobo-the-world-s-first-storage-robot/34631/33 "2008-01-10T11:56:35Z")
I told Carl he needed more but he said no. Maybe now he will listen. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 12:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drobo-the-world-s-first-storage-robot/34631/34 "2008-01-10T12:06:41Z")
So you put two TB drives in and ended up with one TB of space? That’s just simple mirroring (raid 1) isn’t it? Eventually at home I’m just going to pick up a couple 500GB drives, toss them in my desktop, and let windows mirror them for data integrity. [http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=830&page=5](http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=830&page=5) In the mean time I just downloaded a cool little freeware sync program that I run every few days that automatically syncs my laptop and desktop so I have two copies of everything in My Documents. ---
**Author:** ![RobHimself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e480ec/32.png) [@RobHimself](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RobHimself)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 12:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drobo-the-world-s-first-storage-robot/34631/35 "2008-01-10T12:28:39Z")
No because you can add a 3rd and or a 4th and the additional drives can be any size. Its very similiar to raid 5 but you don’t have to use the same size drive. If i were to throw a 500 gig in there the rest of the drves wouldn’t be limited by that. Watch the demo its pretty interesting. [http://www.drobo.com/products\_demo.aspx](http://www.drobo.com/products_demo.aspx) ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 12:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drobo-the-world-s-first-storage-robot/34631/36 "2008-01-10T12:35:25Z")
I would be interested to see how much more space shows up if you throw another 500gb HD in… ---
**Author:** ![RobHimself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e480ec/32.png) [@RobHimself](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RobHimself)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 12:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drobo-the-world-s-first-storage-robot/34631/37 "2008-01-10T12:45:15Z")
there are docs on the website that tell you how much it changes. My best guess would be like 250 added storage. ---
**Author:** ![SkunkApe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/skunkape/32/7575_2.png) [@SkunkApe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SkunkApe)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 1:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drobo-the-world-s-first-storage-robot/34631/38 "2008-01-10T13:23:07Z")
ORBO… the first and only robot. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![RobHimself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e480ec/32.png) [@RobHimself](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RobHimself)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 9:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drobo-the-world-s-first-storage-robot/34631/39 "2008-01-25T09:07:24Z")
UPDATE: We slapped in 2 more terrabyte drives. Drobo reads 2 tb of storeage but it will let you exceed that by alot but you risk losing data if one of the drives fail… Still a fun device. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drobo-the-world-s-first-storage-robot/34631.md?page=1)