B810N 8BAY NAS STORAGE ARRAY GIGABIT ETHERNET

As a professional photographer, archiving my digital catalog is a top priority. Having experienced the adage "it's not IF a hard drive will fail, but WHEN" several times in servers and NAS devices, adding a Drobo B810n to by backup scheme has given me great relief. Having dual-disk redundancy adds to the peace of mind, and file transfers are quick 65-92 Mb/s with the dual, bonded Ethernet. Furthermore, using the Drobo Data Replication (DR), I have a secondary copy that's always up to date, without having to utilize SyncToy to another unit. Setting up the unit was extremely easy, though it does take the B810n a fair amount of time to download/install the latest firmware and format the drives (I initially installed four, 8TB Western Digital Red and two, 6TB Seagate IronWolf NAS drives). So far, the unit is working flawlessly, and I'd highly recommend it for any data-critical application.