If 8 Terabytes is not enough for your music collection you'll be happy to know Data Robotics has just introduced the DroboPro. It has a 16 TB capacity, USB 2.0, FireWire 800, and iSCSI interfaces. The DroboPro uses BeyondRAID technology and can use a multitude of different disk sizes in a single enclosure. New to the Drobo lineup is the iSCSI capability. This enables connecting to the DroboPro over a standard computer network. iSCSI is similar to Network Attached Storage (NAS) in that it allows disk access via a network connection, but that's were the similarities end. Connecting via iSCSI is a little trickier and has more limitations than a standard NAS unit, but the benefits are plenty. I like iSCSI because the external/network drive mounts automatically upon boot-up and appears like a directly connected disk. This allows the user to format the disk and view the disk in Disk Utility or Disk Administrator, etc... It's not clear if the standard DroboShare is compatible with the DroboPro at this time. Read more for some close-up photos.
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More info available on the <a href="http://www.drobo.com/products/drobopro/index.php">DroboPro web page</a>.
Retails price of DroboPro unit without any disk is $1299
<center>DroboPro Front</center><center> <a href="http://images.computeraudiophile.com/graphics/2009/0407/data-robotics-drobopro-angle-on-xl.jpg"><img src="http://images.computeraudiophile.com/graphics/2009/0407/data-robotics-drobopro-angle-on-small.jpg" alt="DroboPro"></a> </center><center>click to enlarge</center>
<center>DroboPro Angle</center><center> <a href="http://images.computeraudiophile.com/graphics/2009/0407/data-robotics-drobopro-angle-xl.jpg"><img src="http://images.computeraudiophile.com/graphics/2009/0407/data-robotics-drobopro-angle-small.jpg" alt="DroboPro"></a> </center><center>click to enlarge</center>
<center>DroboPro Internal</center><center> <a href="http://images.computeraudiophile.com/graphics/2009/0407/data-robotics-drobopro-open-xl.jpg"><img src="http://images.computeraudiophile.com/graphics/2009/0407/data-robotics-drobopro-open-small.jpg" alt="DroboPro"></a> </center><center>click to enlarge</center>
<center>DroboPro Rackmount</center><center> <a href="http://images.computeraudiophile.com/graphics/2009/0407/data-robotics-drobopro-rack-xl.jpg"><img src="http://images.computeraudiophile.com/graphics/2009/0407/data-robotics-drobopro-rack-small.jpg" alt="DroboPro"></a> </center><center>click to enlarge</center>
<center>DroboPro Rear</center><center> <a href="http://images.computeraudiophile.com/graphics/2009/0407/data-robotics-drobopro-rear-xl.jpg"><img src="http://images.computeraudiophile.com/graphics/2009/0407/data-robotics-drobopro-rear-small.jpg" alt="DroboPro"></a> </center><center>click to enlarge</center>
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