10 Tech Products to Boost Your Small Business Productivity

A small business can be an exciting place to work thanks to the inherent advantages of small teams that can react quickly to changes on the business front. However, small businesses also can’t afford to waste or money. To help maximize your efficiency, here are 10 affordable hardware tools to power up your office for greater productivity.

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The Drobo Mini storage array incorporates Drobo’s flexible BeyondRAID technology for adding new capacity into a portable disk enclosure with no downtime. The Drobo Mini holds up to four hot-swappable 2.5-inch hard disk drives (HDDs) and supports one mSATA SSD to accelerate data access. Dual Thunderbolt ports allows for 10Gbps bidirectional performance as well as daisy chaining, while a USB 3.0 port also brings high-performance connectivity to older platforms without a Thunderbolt port. The Drobo Mini is available for $649 with a connectivity cable and no HDD.

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The Doxie Go is a portable scanner designed for small offices that are looking to perform occasional scans but aren’t interested in an all-in-one printer or dedicated scanner. The Doxie Go miniature scanner scans letter-size color pages at up to 600 dpi and has built-in ports for saving scanned documents directly to a USB flash drive or SD card. An internal rechargeable battery allows you to take the Doxie Go on trips—or just move it around the office. The Doxie Go is priced at $199 and works with both Windows PC and Macs.

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