Drobo B810i

Best in Class 8 Bay iSCSI SAN Array With Data-Aware Tiering 

Built on award winning BeyondRAIDTM technology, the Drobo B810i disrupts IT economics by delivering SAN storage and advanced capabilities usually reserved for more expensive solutions. These features are delivered in a Drobo that preserves simplicity. 

The Drobo B810i is optimized for small businesses to provide reliable and high performance storage to servers running applications like file services, data protection, email, and server virtualization. It integrates seamlessly into your TCP/IP network infrastructure and utilizes the industry-standard iSCSI protocol to provide simple, consolidated storage for your servers. 

BeyondRAID Technology 

A Drobo B810i iSCSI array can hold up to 8 SATA hard drives of any capacity. To expand the stor- age capacity of an array, BeyondRAID enables additional disk drives to be inserted into empty drive bays. These new drives are automatically and transparently configured for use in the array without user intervention. However, if all drive bays are occupied, simply replace the smallest capacity drive with a higher capacity one and BeyondRAID will do the rest. 

Unlike traditional RAID arrays, the BeyondRAID technology in Drobo enables different drive capacities to work in the same unit. This enables future expansion as larger SATA drives become available. With Drobo, access to data is always maintained while it protects against simultane- ous drive failures. 

Smart Volumes and Thin Provisioning

Create new volumes up to 64TB in seconds

and manage them over time with ease. The innovative and timesaving Smart Volume management technology with Thin Provisioning integrated into the Drobo B810i allows volumes to pull storage from the common pool of disks rather than a specific physical disk allocation. The labor of resizing and migrating volumes is replaced with the simplicity of intelligent engineering. Drobo B810i supports 255 Smart Volumes of up to 64TB each.  

Hybrid Storage and Tiering 

The Drobo B810i moves beyond manually tuning an array for applications that have different storage requirements. Its ability to automatically tier frequently used transactional data from stored data that’s seldom used enables businesses to consolidate storage resources, and share that storage across all connected clients and their applications. 

When using the hybrid storage option, Drobo’s Data-Aware Tiering leverages high-capacity hard disk drives (HDDs) for bulk storage, and high-performance solid state drives (SSDs) 

for both read and write acceleration. Drobo B810i can use the same SSDs to deliver both

a Data-Aware Transactional Tier and Hot Data cache at the same time. The result is fast redundant storage with a fast read cache for an application-optimized solution that requires no manual tuning. 

Optimizing Business Applications 

Drobo is ideal for building your first scalable backup server or server virtualization cluster. Drobo technology is often used with many well- known backup products including Veem Backup, VMware vSphere, Acronis and Symantec Backup Exec 15. 

Rack Mount Ready, Desktop Quiet 

Drobo B810i can be deployed in a server room for IT use or on a desktop for workgroup sharing of storage, thanks to its compact design and quiet operation. Dual smart fans automatically manage their speeds to optimize cooling and minimize operating noise (Drobo B810i rack mount sold separately). 

Drobo Dashboard 

Drobo Dashboard is an easy-to-use administration tool to centrally manage all your Drobos. It displays the status of all of your Drobos as if they were right in front of you. 

In fact, it provides the same status lights and storage capacity usage gauge that are on the front panel of each of your Drobos. So wherever you are, you can check the health of all your disk drives and know that Drobo has your back, keeping all your data safe. Plus the dashboard handles all administration tasks simply and easily without you needing to become a storage expert. Quite simply, this is the easiest way to configure and manage business-class storage. 

DroboCare 

Drobo products are engineered to the highest standards, but occasionally something goes wrong and that’s when we kick into high gear. DroboCare is simple, powerful protection for your Drobo storage. The DroboCare support program extends your peace of mind beyond the standard warranty term and the phone support included with your Drobo purchase. DroboCare gives you more, even during your standard warranty period. 

Specifications

Connectivity

2 x Gigabit Ethernet ports for data

1 x Gigabit Ethernet port for management

Drives and Expansion

Up to eight (8) 3.5″ SATA or solid state drives (SSDs).

4KN disk support

Drives of any manufacturer, capacity, spindle speed, and/or cache can be used.

No carriers or tools required for 2.5″ SSD carriers. Click here for drive recommendations.

Expandable by adding drives or hot-swapping drives with larger ones. Use the Capacity Calculator to estimate available storage in various configurations.

BeyondRAID Features

Thin Provisioning

Instant Expansion

Mixed Drive Size Utilization

Background Data Integrity Scrubbing

Single or Dual-Disk Redundancy

Virtual Hot Spare

Data Aware

Drive Re-ordering

Management

Drive bay indicator lights, capacity gauge, status lights

Drobo Dashboard version 2.8 or later

Drobo Dashboard email alerts

Operating System Support

Apple® macOS X 10.11 and higher

Windows 10 32 and 64 bit

Windows 8/8.1 32 and 64 bit

Windows 7 32 and 64 bit

Windows Server 2012 32 and 64 bit

Windows Server 2008 R2 32 and 64 bit

File Systems Supported

Mac OS X: HFS+

Windows: NTFS

VMware: VMFS

Network Protocols

iSCSI

CHAP Authentication

MPIO Support

Ethernet Features

Jumbo frames (up to 9000 bytes MTU)

Hardware Features

Carrier-less Drive Bays for 3.5″ Drives

Rackmount Kit 19″

Additional Software Features

Hybrid Storage

Automated Data-Aware Tiering

Automated Hot Data Cache

Drive Spin Down

Utilizing Lynux Version 3.2

Warranty

Two (2) year warranty

Size and Weight

Desktop or 3U Rack Mount Form Factor (rack mount kit optional)

Width: 12.17 in (309.1 mm)

Height: 5.46 in (138.7 mm)

Depth: 14.1 in (358.1 mm)

Weight: 16 lb 3 oz (7.4 kg) without hard drives, or packaging

Power and Cooling

Internal Power Supply: AC Input – 100/240 VAC, 1.8/0.75 A, 50/60 Hz

Power Consumption –

Idle System (standby, drives off): 13 watts

Typical Idle System (drive spin down mode, eight (8) drives): 25 watts

Typical Busy System (four (4) drives: 82 watts

Dual, fixed cooling fans

Environmental Specifications

Acoustics – Normal Operation: 30.4 dB

Operating Temperature: 10°C – 35°C (50° – 95°F)

Non-Operating Temperature (storage): -10° – 60°C (14° – 140°F)

Operating: Humidity: 5% – 80%

Certifications

Environmental: RoHS, WEEE, REACH

Regulatory: FCC Part 15 Class B; Canada ICES – 003; Class B; CE Mark; CISPR22 Class B; VCCI Approval to V.3; ACA Approval to AS/NZS 3548

Safety: UL, cUL, TUV, CB

Box Contents

Drobo B810i

3 x 6 ft (1.8 m) Ethernet cables

6 ft (1.8 m) power cord with power supply

Quick Start Guide

Internal LED Labels for Front Panel (German, French, and Japanese)

Optional Accessories

Drobo 8-Bay Rack Mount Kit