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Connectivity

• 4 x Gigabit Ethernet ports (one dedicated to management)

Drives and Expansion

• Up to to 12 3.5″ SAS 1/2 or SATA I/II/III hard drives or 2 to 3 solid state drives (with up to 9 hard drives).
• Drives of any manufacturer, capacity, spindle speed, and/or cache can be used. No carriers or tools required. 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
• Automatic Protection Levels
• 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 2.0 or later

Operating System Support

• Mac OS X 10.6 and higher
• Windows 8/8.1 32 and 64 bit
• Windows 7 32 and 64 bit
• Windows XP SP3 32 and 64 bit
• Windows Server 2012 32 and 64 bit
• Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 32 and 64 bit
• Windows Server 2003 32 and 64 bit
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Intel only)
• VMware vSphere 5.0 – 5.1U2 (ESXi)

File System Options

• Mac OS X: HFS+
• Windows: NTFS
• Linux: ext3
• VMware: VMFS

Network Protocols

• iSCSI
• CHAP Authentication

Ethernet Features

• Connection Failover
• Jumbo frames (up to 9000 bytes MTU)

Hardware Features

• Carrier-less Drive Bays
• Field replaceable controller card, power supplies and cooling fan unit

Additional Software Features

• Automated Data-Aware Tiering (available in firmware version 1.1.0 or higher)
• Smart Volumes (LUNs, up to 255)
• Drive Spin Down

Warranty

• One (1) year warranty in the US or outside the EU or two (2) year warranty in the EU.

Size and Weight

• 3U Rack Mount Form Factor (rack mount kit included)
• Width: 17.17 in (436.1 mm)
• Height: 5.20 in (132.1 mm)
• Depth: 21.85 in (555.0 mm)
• Weight: 47 lb (21.3 kg) without hard drives, power supply, or packaging

Power and Cooling

• Dual, redundant, hot-swappable power supplies: AC Input – 100/240 VAC, 8/5 A, 50/60 Hz
• Redundant, hot swappable cooling unit

Environmental Specifications

• Operating Temperature: 10°C – 35°C (50° – 95°F)
• Non-Operating Temperature (storage): -10° – 60°C (14° – 140°F)
• Operating Humidity: 20% – 80%

Certifications

• Environmental: RoHS, WEEE, REACH
• Regulatory: FCC Part 15 Class A; Canada ICES-003 Class B; CE Mark; CISPR22 Class B; MIC Mark; VCCI Approval to V.3; BSMI Approval to CNS13438; ACA Approval to AS/NZS 3548
• Safety: UL, cUL, TUV, CB

Box Contents

• Drobo B1200i
• 2 x 6 ft (1.8 m) power cord with power supply
• Rack mount parts
• Rack Mount Installation Guide
• Getting Started Guide
• Drobo Resource CD, which includes the Drobo Dashboard application