Data Robotics Drobo S Nominated as 2010 Editor’s Choice in Macworld Magazine

Santa Clara, CA – May 20, 2010 – Data Robotics, the company that delivers the best data storage experience, today announced that Drobo S has been nominated as a Macworld Awards 2010 Editor’s Choice product in the “Best Business Storage” category. The companies nominated for Editors’ Choice awards are chosen by the Macworld editorial team (along with input from Macworld's sister titles: Digital Arts, iPad & iPhone User, and MacVideo.tv) and include established industry leaders as well as smaller companies offering cutting-edge Mac products.

“We are excited that the Macworld Awards 2010 selection team has identified Drobo S as an easy-to-use, fast and reliable business-class data storage solution with all of the automation and simplicity that Drobo fans are accustomed to,” said Tom Buiocchi, CEO of Data Robotics. “The Macworld nomination strengthens our position that Drobo S is ideal for small to medium-sized businesses, small office/home office users, and creative professionals who generate large quantities of data that need to be kept secure for both short and long term storage.”

The full list of nominations can be found here: http://www.macworld.co.uk/digitallifestyle/news/?newsid=3221303

About Drobo S:
Built on the company’s award-winning BeyondRAID virtualized storage platform, which provides unprecedented ease-of-use and eliminates the lock-in of traditional RAID configurations, Drobo S features self-healing data protection and a one-click toggle between single- and dual-drive redundancy for configurations up to 10TB. The five drive Drobo S supports on-the-fly capacity expansion along with the flexibility to replace failed drives, add drives, and swap out drives of varying sizes from disparate vendors without ever losing access to data and with zero downtime. Drobo S features enhanced FireWire 800 performance along with native eSATA support for maximum performance with demanding applications such as high-definition video editing.

Features and Benefits:

• 5-Drive Capacity and Instant Expansion to 10TB – Customers with growing storage requirements can easily add data capacity with minimal effort. To add capacity, customers simply insert a new hard drive or replace the smallest drive with a larger one, even when all five drive bays are full. With Drobo S, expansion is automatic and instantaneous, and access to data is always maintained.
• Single- and Dual-Drive Redundancy – The Drobo S dual drive redundancy option protects against the simultaneous failure of up to two hard drives. Customers can engage this option with a single click without ever losing access to their data.
• Self-Healing Technology – With BeyondRAID, the Drobo S continually examines data blocks and sectors on each drive to flag potential issues. The preemptive “scrubbing” helps ensure data is being written only to healthy drive areas and automatically keeps data in the safest state possible – even when a drive fails.
• Interface Options – Users can take advantage of eSATA, FireWire 800, and USB 2.0 connections for ultimate flexibility.

About Data Robotics
Data Robotics, Inc., the company that delivers the best storage experience ever, develops automated storage products designed to ensure data is always protected, accessible, and simple to manage. The award-winning Drobo storage arrays are the first to provide the protection of traditional RAID without the complexity. The revolutionary BeyondRAID technology frees users from making the difficult and confining choice of “Which RAID level to deploy?” by providing an unprecedented combination of advanced features and automation, including single- and dual-drive redundancy, instant expansion, self-monitoring, data awareness, self-healing, and an easy-to-understand visual status and alert panel. For more information, visit Data Robotics at www.datarobotics.com.

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