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Drobo Chalk Talk – The Technology Behind BeyondRAID



Storage Field Day 1



This video is part of the appearance, “Drobo Presents at Storage Field Day 1“. It was recorded as part of Storage Field Day 1 at 13:30-15:30 on April 26, 2012.


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Eric Pounds (Director, Product Management) and Rod Harrison (Chief Architect) of Drobo details the technology behind BeyondRAID, their core data management technology. They hit on the following key points during this discussion:

  • How Drobo presents a single pool of storage
  • How BeoyndRAID creates thousands of “zones” of storage on disk drives
  • How these zones are built and re-built
  • Drobo’s “data-aware” thin provisioning technology

Personnel: Eric Pounds, Rod Harrison


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