DroboPro has everything people have come to love about the Drobo, but with more redundancy and heaps more drive space, up to 16TB worth over 8 drives. Drobo use a proprietary BeyondRAID storage architecture which allows a mixed array of hard drives of any size to serve as the volume. You can also switch between single drive redundancy (if 1 drive fails you’re still safe) to dual drive redundancy (can survive 2 drive failures but eats more drive space) all with just a click. No more reformatting or messing about. You don’t need to fill all the drive bays either, just add more discs as you need them. It’s also rack mountable so you can tuck it away somewhere quiet and you can connect to it via FireWire800 or USB 2.0.

The Pro adds built-in networkability via a protocol called iSCSI, or SCSI-over-Ethernet, which Drobo chose for its better performance. They also claim that they’ve taken the tricky out of iSCSI so it’s dead-simple to configure and you can still share the DroboPro via your server and standard Ethernet architecture and it runs with OS X or Windows. No prices yet.

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