Product Description

DroboShare is the ideal companion to the award-winning Drobo Storage Robot, allowing you to share data over a local area network. The combined solution automates network management, safeguards your data and lets you easily add capacity, making it the most reliable and expandable networked storage system for sharing your data. With DroboShare, you can now access the information stored on the award-winning Drobo from almost any client on the network, including Windows, Apple and Linux computers. DroboShare can host up to two Drobos, allowing capacities of up to 8TB of storage today, scaling to 32TB as larger disk drives become available. DroboShare connects your Drobo to Gigabit Ethernet networks for sharing data. Just plug Drobo into DroboShare and you are ready to go. Avoid complex network configurations. You can unplug the Drobo and connect it directly to a computer when required then reconnect Drobo to the DroboShare for sharing files with other users. With DroboShare you can choose NTFS (Windows), HFS+ (Mac OS X), EXT3 (Linux) or FAT32 (Various). DroboShare supports standard network protocols allowing access to its data from almost any client. DroboShare is designed for office and home environments where users need a reliable, easy to use device for sharing and backing up files via a network. Drobo is an ideal solution for professionals and individuals who need to store large amounts of data. Drobo enthusiasts include small business owners, creative professionals, graphic designers, photographers, video editors, and educators amongst others. Fully automated storage you don't have to manage Shares up to 2 Drobos Power - 12VDC at 0.5Amp File System Options - Linux EXT3, Mac OS X HFS+, Windows NTFS, and Cross-Platform FAT32 Dimensions - Width 6.0 x Height 1.75 x Length 10.7 (152.4x44.5x271.8mm) Weight - 2 pounds 4 ounces (1.02 Kg)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2702 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Data Robotics
• Model: 905-00001-001
• Dimensions: 8.80" h x 21.20" w x 34.00" l, 4.13 pounds
• Networking: Hi-Speed USB

Features

• Green Power Indicator - Power on, DroboShare ready
• Green Data Transfer Indicator - Ethernet Activity
• Interface - 10/100/1000 Ethernet
• Network topology - Shares data on a single subnet
• USB 2.0 Type A Interface to Drobo

Customer Reviews

DroboShare is Very Slow
The DroboShare unit is very slow. They advertise a gigabit ethernet, but this is 4x-8x slower than USB 2.0. I have had this DroboShare for a month and am now not using it due to how slow it is.

Less than you would expect from Dobro
Drobo hardware is well built, cleverly designed, and comes with all the A++ quality cables that you need. Even the packaging has cool graphics, and the training videos for the Drobo itself are first rate and industry leaders. What happened with the Droboshare? Who knows. The documentation is spotty and as of this writing is not available off their website. Data transfer rates are ho-hum. Curiously no step by step complete installation procedure exists for this box. If you write tech support they will write you back with most of what you need to know. An experienced user can guess the rest. For a company like Drobo this box is not ready for prime time.

Too slow for a network drive
The data transfer over the network is slow that it does not meet the standard of today's network drive. You probably won't notice it if you copy a file or two. But if you try to copy large files (over gigabyte), you may want come back in a few hours. Trust me, I have other network drives at home in comparison to the Droboshare. In addition, it's overprice for something that doesn't perform.