Will a Drobo use a SAS drive
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Simple answer: No. Except Drobo B1200i.You can check this: http://www.drobo.com/products/choose-drive/
943458
The short answer is no. Synology includes the reds in the supported drives list of this unit, but WD tells you that reds are supported only for up to 5 drives in one box, due to vibration issues. If you want to be safe, you should use WD SE or RE - these are enterprise grade drives with vibration protection technology, and not much more expensive.
1553448
No. This is not a laptop drive--it is made for servers/workstations. It is too thick to fit in almost any laptop, but even if it did, your laptop probably doesn't support the SAS connection.
765517
No you would need two of these:HighPoint Internal Mini-SAS to 4SATA(SFF8087 to SATA), 1M (3 feet) Int-MS-1M4S
998175
Usually SAS and Sata are not interchangeable. But if the drive says compatible then why not try in a computer sata port. If it works there then it will sure work with link station.
17636
A Drobo is crazy overkill for enclosing a single SATA drive. You should be able to find an SATA enclosure with a fan for about 1/10 of the cost of the Drobo.
1743725
NO. It is only a BDRL drive. It does not even come with any hardware to install or connect it.
109220
you can install any hard drive SATA or SAS as long you have the correct cables or asapters please the Dell Guide for compatibiliries thanks
1806705
The Drobo has a dashboard that you install from there website. For the Drobo's you have to have a least two SATA drives to work, so if one drive fails (there will be a red light) pop out the bad drive and replace with a new drive Drobo will do the rest. (also you can still use the files while it recovers the drive). The unit does have its on power supply. No other hardware need unless you get Drobo shares.(but you can setup a share folder on you PC) Yes, I have 4TB drive in mine. I heard you can use larger but not sure. You can use any brand, any size hard drive. Yes it can run all the time. They make a 5 bay unit now or you can connect two Drobo together. Just make sure it is the newer Drobo for the 3.0 USB connect.
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Performance is more than adequate for me - main use is local backup of RAID drives (attached to 2 Apple iMacs) and iPad/iPhone in-house access to any of that data (Drobo is attached to Apple APE-AC). My primary objective was easy admin: adding & changing shares & permissions, mix & match various SATA drives types and sizes, data redundancy w/o true RAID, swap & add of HDs without any admin. my short list included Synology, but made the decision just on ease of admin. I am aware of some horror stories concerning data loss with Drobo, but I keep it on a UPS and it's just a backup for me.
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That's the beauty of the Drobo...you can start with 3 drives then add more later without a problem. The Drobo will resize itself for you. Even better, if you want to replace a drive with a bigger one, you can simply take out the small drive and put in a bigger drive without reformatting. Drobo takes care of everything!
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The one I received didn't work at all. I returned it for a Drobo. I use 2TB drives in the Drobo so I don't know about 4 in that.
506083
Unless I'm mistaken, there isn't a "newer" drobo. The drobo 5d is currently the latest and greatest and as far as I know you can put any hard drive into the drobo 5d. In fact, can even mix different drives and sizes.
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Something else to think about... Whether or not newer, larger capacity drives will be compatible with any current Drobo model, your will still probably be limited to the current 16 TB max volume size limitation.
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Yes they can. The drobo 5n is network storage and compatible both with Windows 7 and a Mac. I have set up machines in this configuration without issue. Don't forget to install the drobo tools on one or both of the machines for managing the shares, user accounts, etc. You do not need the tools on a machine that simply needs to see the shares, but you will need them to be installed on a machine that needs to create and manage shares and users.
1005954
I don't think so. It needs the Drobo desktop software installed on the computer you're using, i don't think that will work on a server.
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No. It will not fit. I bought 2 of these and tried to put them in my Drobo mini and they do not fit (Drobo only handles 12 mm) :( This means the Drobo will only fit 4T (not 8T as I had hoped) as the 1T drives are the conventional 9 or 12 mm. I am not sure about whether a 1.5T drive will fit (that would be 6T in the mini) but you could check that option too.