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Posted at 6:06 AM on Monday 09/14/09 by
Ben
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Newegg has the Data Robotics Drobo DR04DD10 4-Bay USB 2.0 & FireWire 800 Storage Array Enclosure for $360 - $50 off coupon code DROBOPRO [Exp 9/17] - $40 rebate [Exp 9/30] + $13 shipping = $283 shipped. Drobo's built-in software automatically self-heals around drive failures and data errors and expands capacity dynamically when you add a drive. [Compare]
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    sk8erboy - Posted 6:25 am PDT 09/14/09 (306 Posts)  Report Spam

    Hmmmm . $87 cheaper than 3 weeks ago. At this rate, by November, it'll be in my price range. Been looking at Drobo for many months now .

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    nkhater - Posted 6:32 am PDT 09/14/09 (62 Posts)  Report Spam

    No Ethernet, no thanks

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    pastrychef - Posted 6:32 am PDT 09/14/09 (353 Posts)  Report Spam

    I'm still waiting for my Drobo rebate from two months ago.

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    tacky1 - Posted 6:57 am PDT 09/14/09 (101 Posts)  Report Spam

    What happens if the unit fails, Can the data be retrieved or does the drives have to reinstalled into another unit.

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    pastrychef - Posted 7:25 am PDT 09/14/09 (353 Posts)  Report Spam

    @ #4:

    You would need to put the drives in another unit.

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    yoFu - Posted 7:31 am PDT 09/14/09 (218 Posts)  Report Spam

    #4, see that's what backups are for. Just recover the data after you move the disks to another machine/server.

    You'd need to specifically ask Drobo support which units support interchanging drives **with data** intact.

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    mk46 - Posted 9:19 am PDT 09/14/09 (173 Posts)  Report Spam

    #4, You can move all of your drives to another Drobo, and retrieve all your data. (keep the drives in the same order as they were in the original unit)

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    ayee5150 - Posted 4:19 pm PDT 09/14/09 (6 Posts)  Report Spam

    Is Newegg.com considered a Canadian dealer? The rebate form link here and on Newegg's website show the rebate is only valid for "All Canadian Dealers". Wouldn't want Data Robotics to say Newegg.com is not a Canadian company and reject my rebate.

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    - - Posted 9:02 pm PDT 09/16/09 (54 Posts)  Report Spam

    #8, When I click on the link Ben provides above, it is to the US version of the rebate form. But in any case here's a direct link to the form on the Data Robotics site:

    http://www.drobo.com/mir/rebate-0909-us.pdf

    Note that they also have a $150 rebate on the DroboPro.

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    - - Posted 9:11 am PDT 09/17/09 (54 Posts)  Report Spam

    Oops. The DroboPro rebate is only $100 (not $150, as I said above).

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