Connected Data, the creator of the award-winning Drobo line of smart storage solutions, today announces the immediate availability of its new Drobo Mini 8 TB bundle that provides customers with a massive amount of storage space in a small, rugged form factor.

The Drobo Mini 8 TB bundle features four hot-swappable 2.5" drive bays pre-loaded with four Samsung Spinpoint M9T 2 TB drives. Like all Drobo products, the Drobo Mini 8 TB bundle is built on the award-winning BeyondRAID Technology to ensure that data is not lost in the event of one or two simultaneous drive failures. If a drive does fail, the Mini automatically repairs itself and returns to a protected state while providing full access to all data. New drives can be added or swapped on-the-fly with zero downtime.

This combination of capacity and extreme durability makes the Drobo Mini ideal for photographers, filmmakers and other creative professionals who can quickly and easily transfer large multimedia files from their devices' media cards to the Mini while still on location.

"Lugging 8 TBs of storage to a photo or video shoot was a real challenge before now," said Rich Harrington, CEO of RHED Pixel and publisher of Photofocus. "While other companies may offer 8 TB options, they tend to lack portability and data protection. This makes other solutions impractical for field use by creative pros. The new Drobo Mini 8 TB bundle makes it easy to bring a tremendous amount of storage capacity anywhere we need it while still providing the peace-of-mind that comes with Drobo's unique approach against drive failure."

"The Drobo Mini is the ideal storage array for our new 2 TB Samsung Spinpoint M9T hard drives," said David Frankovich, Director PLM, Samsung HDD division of Seagate Technology. "We're able to provide Drobo users with the highest-capacity and thinnest storage solution available in today's market."

Pricing and Availability
The Drobo Mini 8 TB bundle is available today at an MSRP of $999 USD through www.drobostore.com and select channel partners.