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The Drobo 5N was designed with one purpose 
in mind: to deliver the best ever experience 
sharing storage and accessing data. From 
the moment you plug it in and it is instantly 
accessible on your network, you’ll know there’s 
nothing like it. The Drobo 5N is perfect for any 
connected home, home office, or small office 
environment needing a simple, safe device for 
sharing and backing up data over the network.

Not only is Drobo 5N fast, but it’s easy-to-use, 
expandable, flexible, and protected—exactly 
what’s expected from a Drobo. You can safely 
store and edit photos, videos, and audio files as 
well as store and back up all the computers on 
your network.

Built on award-winning BeyondRAID

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 technol-

ogy with single- or dual-drive redundancy, Drobo 
5N protects your data without any user interac-
tion, even in the event of multiple drive failures. 
And like all Drobo products, it’s fast and easy to 
set up and no software configuration required to 
have accessible storage on your network. 

Drives can be added or hot-swapped on-the-fly 
for storage expansion with zero downtime. If 
you’re running low on space, the lights on the 
front tell you what to do. Just add a drive in 
an empty bay or remove a smaller drive and 
replace it with a larger one.

The Drobo 5N is equipped with a single Gigabit 
Ethernet port for network connectivity and con-
nects directly to your network to make sharing 
your data easy. Just plug it into any switch or 

wireless router and you’re ready to go. You 
can even connect the Drobo 5N directly to the 
Ethernet port on your computer without having 
to configure any settings.

Data-Aware Tiering technology, usually 
reserved for business-class storage solutions, 
is also available in this networked Drobo. It 
intelligently uses the high-performance SSDs 
to accelerate performance of the storage array, 
allowing applications such as Adobe Lightroom 
and Apple iPhoto or iTunes fast access to data. 
If getting the fastest performance possible is 
your thing, you can also load up every drive bay 
with SSDs. Drobo gives you the flexibility to 
choose.

Drobo doesn’t just protect you from a drive 
failure, but also from potential data loss after 
a power outage. Drobo 5N includes a battery 
that protects all data in memory, or cache, that 
is, data on its way to the drives. When power 
spontaneously goes away, the battery keeps 
the Drobo alive long enough for the data to be 
written to non-volatile storage. The battery 
recharges itself and lasts for the life of the 
product.

The Drobo 5N enables network backup for Mac 
and Windows users. If you’re backing up your 
Windows 8 computer to your Drobo, File History 
is supported. The Drobo 5N also delivers the 
most seamless support for OS X Time Machine 

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of any network storage system on the 
market today. Using Time Machine with 
Drobo 5N is as easy as one click in Drobo 
Dashboard.

Drobo devices have always been space 
efficient and the Drobo 5N is no exception. 
It was designed from the ground up to 
provide very high capacity without taking 
up a lot of your valuable desk space. It is 
compact because of Drobo’s unique car-
rierless drive-bay design, allowing drives 
to be installed very close to each other. 

Drobo 5N is also the quietest Drobo ever 
due to its tuned, large, variable-speed 
cooling fan.

Drobo Dashboard is the single tool 
used to centrally manage all of your 
Drobo devices. Drobo Dashboard 
displays status as if all of your Drobos 
were right in front of you with the 
same status lights and capacity gauge 
that are on the front panel. All admin-
istration tasks are a single click away.