![]() If, like me, you’re on a 30 Mbps fiber optic connection, you should have very little latency, but if you’re sitting at a crowded hotspot somewhere, tied into a 2 or 3 Mbps asymmetric connection that only gives you 512-768 Kbps upstream, then you’ll experience a fair share of latency. Keep in mind though that the quality of the WAN connection depends entirely on the quality of the broadband connection you’re using to connect to the Drobo. The app is still in beta, will be released in May, is going to be free for a single user and will have a licensing cost for multiple users. It also provides a gateway for cloud backup to either a second Drobo FS or a cloud storage provider like Amazon, Mozy or RackSpace. The app promises to be intuitive, easy-to-use, and to provide fine-grained controls for data access. ![]() You can set varying levels of access and give multiple users the ability to access various file sets. No matter where you are in the world, you can map your Drobo FS to your laptop and access the files you’ve placed on it over a WAN connection between you and the Drobo, handled by the OxygenCloud app. ![]() It can also be customized through third-party DroboApps, which can turn it into a remote file sharing solution, a cloud storage solution, a media server or pretty much anything you’d want a NAS device to do.ĭata Robotics has partnered with a company called Oxygen Cloud, which has written an app that turns the Drobo FS into a “personal cloud”. It’s simple and safe data sharing, because, just like the Drobo S, it protects against two hard drive failures, not just one. In the Drobo FS, one core does the Drobo BeyondRAID stuff and the second core runs Linux and - this is the neat part - whatever DroboApps you decide to install on it. It runs on a dual-core processor - the same processor used in the DroboPro. It’s a 5-drive unit with a single Gigabit Ethernet port that supports Jumbo Frames, AFP, and CIFS/SMB, so it’s compatible with OS X, Windows and Linux. It’s a plug-and-play file sharing system that gives you the performance and self-healing data safety of the Drobo S, in a NAS package. The Drobo FS is an all-in-one file serving solution - hence the FS moniker. The Drobo FS isn’t listed for sale yet at online retailers. If know which model to get and are looking for a great deal, you can find the Drobo for $ 335, the Drobo S for $ 699, the DroboPro for $ 1,199 and the DroboElite for $ 3,495.
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