Drobo Mini 8TB Portable Array ($999) Only Three Pounds

Connected Data, Inc. announces the availability of its Drobo Mini 8TB bundle that provides customers with a massive amount of storage space in a small, rugged form factor.

The Drobo Mini 8TB bundle features four hot-swappable 2.5″ drive bays pre-loaded with four Samsung Spinpoint M9T 2TB drives.

Like all Drobo products, it is built on the BeyondRAID Technology to ensure that data is not lost in the event of one or two simultaneous drive failures. If a drive does fail, the Mini automatically repairs itself and returns to a protected state while providing full access to all data. New drives can be added or swapped on-the-fly with zero downtime.

It connects via Thunderbolt or USB 3.0 providing flexible, performance access to data while on the road with the confidence to know that data will be safe and protected against loss. All of these features and capabilities come in a sleek-looking package that weighs three pounds and is small enough to fit into any travel bag.

This combination of capacity and durability makes the Drobo Mini a solution for photographers, filmmakers and other creative professionals who can transfer large multimedia files from their devices’ media cards to the Mini while still on location.

“Lugging 8TBs of storage to a photo or video shoot was a real challenge before now,” said Rich Harrington, CEO of RHED Pixel and publisher of Photofocus. “While other companies may offer 8TB options, they tend to lack portability and data protection. This makes other solutions impractical for field use by creative pros. The new Drobo Mini 8TB bundle makes it easy to bring a tremendous amount of storage capacity anywhere we need it while still providing the peace-of-mind that comes with Drobo’s unique approach against drive failure.”

“The Drobo Mini is the ideal storage array for our new 2TB Samsung Spinpoint M9T HDDs,” said David Frankovich, director PLM, Samsung HDD division of Seagate Technology LLC. “We’re able to provide Drobo users with the highest-capacity and thinnest storage solution available in today’s market.”

The Drobo Mini 8TB bundle is available at an MSRP of $999 through www.drobostore.com and select channel partners.