Drobo B1200i DR-B1200I-1A21 データシート

Drobo Data Sheet | B1200i

Built on proven BeyondRAID™ technology, coupled 
with new and innovative Automated Data-Aware 
Tiering, the Drobo B1200i delivers a level of 
automation and technical sophistication usually 
reserved for more expensive enterprise solutions. 
All in a product as easy to use as a Drobo. 

The Drobo B1200i is optimized for SMB 
IT to provide reliable, high-performance, 
and self-optimizing storage for server 
virtualization, email, and data protection. It 
integrates seamlessly into your TCP/IP network 
infrastructure and utilizes the industry-standard 
iSCSI protocol to provide powerful, yet simple, 
consolidated storage for your IT environment. 

A Drobo B1200i iSCSI array can hold up to 36TB 
of raw storage and beyond. To add capacity, 
simply insert a new hard drive or replace your 
smallest drive with a larger one, even when all 
drive bays are full. Unlike traditional RAID, the 
BeyondRAID technology in Drobo enables you to 
leverage different drive capacities, allowing for 
continuous expansion as larger drives become 
available. With Drobo, expansion is automatic 
and instantaneous and access to data is always 
maintained, all while protecting you from two 
simultaneous drive failures. 

Automated Data-Aware Tiering allows 
businesses to consolidate storage resources and 
share that storage across all connected servers 
and their applications. The Drobo B1200i moves 
beyond manually tuning an array for applications 
that have different storage requirements.

Automated Data-Aware Tiering leverages 
high-capacity hard disk drives (HDDs) paired 
with high-performance solid state drives (SSDs) 
to deliver application-optimized storage that 
requires no manual tuning. 

Create new volumes up to 16TB in seconds 
and manage them over time with ease. The 
innovative and time-saving Smart Volumes™ 
management technology with Thin Provisioning 
integrated into the Drobo B1200i allows volumes 
to pull storage from the common pool of disks 
rather than a specific physical disk allocation.

Similar to business applications, Drobo is ideal 
for building your first server virtualization cluster, 
highly available email server, or scalable backup 
server. Drobo technology has been certified for 
VMware vSphere, Symantec Backup Exec, and 
Veeam Backup environments. 

The B1200i is the first Drobo with serviceable 
modular components: removable controller card; 
dual-redundant, hot-swappable power supplies; 
and a hot-swappable cooling fan unit. You can 
source field replaceable units in advance in 
case of a single hardware component failure, 
to ensure maximized uptimes. This delivers 
the higher level of availability demanded by 
virtualized IT environments.

Drobo Dashboard is the single tool to 

centrally manage all of your Drobos. 

Drobo Dashboard displays status as if all 

of your Drobos were right in front of you 

with the same status lights and capacity 

gauge that are on the front panel. All 

administration tasks are a single click 

away. Simply, it’s the easiest way to 

configure and manage business-class 

storage.