The Drobo Mini houses up to four 2.5in harddrives - the same size that you'll find in laptops. Basically, a 'Mini Me' of the RAID iteration. One year warranty in the US or outside the EU or two year warranty in the EU.Weight: 2.2 lb (1 kg) without hard drives, power supply, or packaging.Kensington Lock Port for Security (lock not included).Drive bay indicator lights, capacity gauge, status lights.2 x Thunderbolt ports second port for daisy chaining Thunderbolt devices (Mac OS X only).Use the Capacity Calculator to estimate available storage in various configurations. Expandable by adding drives or hot-swapping drives with larger ones.Drives of any manufacturer, capacity, spindle speed, and/or cache can be used.One mSATA solid state drive in the Drobo Accelerator Bay for increased performance (sold separately).Up to four 2.5in SATA I/II/III hard disk drives or solid state drives – 7 mm and 9.5 mm in height (sold separately).I spent over a month using the Drobo Mini, so hang on to see if this mini RAID is up your alley. Featuring a relatively small (~7in x 7in) footprint, handy LED status lights, speedy Thunderbolt or USB 3.0, a desktop application for monitoring usage and other tools, as well as the ability to keep adding more storage as you go, the Drobo Mini looks like an attractive storage solution for photographers and videographers. The Drobo Mini is aimed at professionals and enthusiasts who shoot a lot of stills and/or videos in the field and want the protection of RAID when they're away from home. What you lose in available storage you gain in peace of mind. RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, and describes a type of storage whereby data is scattered across more than one harddrive in an array, to protect it from loss in the case of hardware failure. The Drobo Mini offers RAID storage on the go with four hot-swappable 2.5-inch hard drive bays. This is a predicament I've found myself in as well, but just in time, before I ran out of desk space entirely, the folks at Drobo sent me one of their Drobo Mini ($419 without drives) models to try out. Those who work with RAW files and high-definition videos know that every gigabyte is sacred, and most likely have an arsenal of external hard drives gobbling up the open areas on their desks. $419 / £263 (without drives) "Too much storage" is a phrase that does not exist in photography.
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