{"id":11321,"date":"2011-11-10T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/data-robot\/"},"modified":"2012-11-18T10:39:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T10:39:58","slug":"data-robot","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/25954\/data-robot-drobo","title":{"rendered":"Data Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_data_robot_mean\">What Does Data Robot Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Data Robot (Drobo) is a total digital storage solution comprised of direct attached storage (DAS), network attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN) devices.<\/p>\n<p>Drobo increases storage capacity without downtime by automatically distributing hard drive data between two or more device sources. 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