Now that Drobo is out and on the loose, the world is buzzing about our little robotic friend. So what is everyone saying? Check out these quotes and places to get the current pulse from experts around the globe.

TechLore - "Although I have not had a chance (yet) to run it through it’s paces it looks like Drobo “The World’s First Storage Robot” is going to make things a lot easier for me and everyone to manage your storage."

Techsoap.net - "...explaining RAID is almost as fun as explaining the OSI model, however so many people, especially designers, photographers, videographers, etc, are forced into learning how RAID will protect their prescious data. The explaining is certain to lessen if Drobo has its way."

Scobleizer - "this thing is RAID made simple. You just slide in a new SATA hard drive (Seagate is gonna love this) and it automatically senses it, and uses it."

techshout.com - "Data Robotics has come out with a hard drive enclosure called Drobo, which has been promoted as the “world’s first storage robot”. Drobo has the unusual ability to automatically detect and format up to four 3.5-inch SARA drives of any capacity! No wonder, the company has been calling it a robot."

simplicidade - "The feature list and the ease of use look amazing, and the box is pretty too. Unfortunately there is no NAS version (yet?). One of the features is the seamless storage expansion. Just add disks, and the box takes care of the rest (all that RAID non-sense)."

techchee.com - "...tasks can be automated by Droba including creating redundancy, sensing and repairing data corruption. It’s compatible with both Mac and PC platforms, the Drobo is..."

Ross Hollman - "...hard drives eventually fail, meaning that if you are using non-redundant external drives, you constantly face the risk of data loss. Furthermore, some RAID configurations require the use of identical drives, meaning that failures can cause you to have to redesign your entire RAID..."

ZDnet - "Meet Drobo, what his inventors call the world’s first storage robot. It is an important step in the consumerization of IT: a storage array that manages storage protection and capacity so you don’t have to. Drobo is a USB black box that stores and protects your data about as effortlessly as possible."

ubergizmo - "While it might not move around and cook up a dish or serve wine for you, it handles a wide range of maintenance tasks such as creating redundancy, sensing and repairing data corruption automatically."

TheRail - "What is a storage robot? Basically it means to you never running out of disk-space, never losing data, and never have to configure anything. You don’t even need to turn it off to replace smaller drives (or failed ones) with bigger ones."

Automated Home - "Billed as the worlds first "storage robot", this PC or Mac compatible USB hard drive array handles all the configuration tasks automatically. Just pop in a new drive and it does the rest."

Everything USB - "Everything from data mirroring to repair are done automatically in the background and drives are hot-swappable without interruptions to data transfer. You also don't need to reformat every time you upgrade as Drobo tricks Windows into thinking the size of the partition is 2TB."

Absolute Gadget - "Ever since Arnold Schwarzenegger asked those punks for their clothes, their boots and motorbike, we have been a little wary of robots. So the news that a company has produced a robot that can automatically sense and configure hard drives to use as storage for your computer was met with a little trepidation."

iSnoop - "...Drobo employs a more intelligent redundancy system that employs a dynamic combination of mirroring and parity to deliver more usable space when working with drives of different sizes."

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