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Video Chapters
00:00 - The Start
00:57 - How Drobo Started?
02:02 - New Products
02:37 - ALL THOSE ACQUISITIONS!!
03:38 - StorCentric GAMBLE BIG!
04:44 - The BIG DATA Company?
05:21 - Why was DROBO so popular and how they innovated?
06:16 - A Concise Range
06:44 - Smarter LED System
07:07 - Mac Support and Ports
07:38 - BeyondRAID
08:18 - Desktop BBU and SSD Cache before everyone else
09:02 - Drobo was affordable
10:16 - Available UNPOPULATED!!!
12:12 - What Went Wrong?
13:14 - Complacency and Weak release after weak release
14:03 - The Competition gets STRONGER!
15:10 - Storcentric spread itself WAY TOO THIN
15:55 - New Mac OS Updates Not Implemented
17:02 - Hardware Shorates and The Pandemic
17:51 - Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, the end is near...
19:17 - Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, THE END
20:52 - Drobo Spare Parts?
21:48 - Drobo Alternatives in 2023/2024?
22:14 - Did Storcentric/Drobo Bet Bad?
23:11 - Free Advice and Support if you want/need it
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