Drobo 5D DRDR5A21 Scheda Tecnica

Redesigned from the ground up to meet the 
data storage needs of today’s media creators 
and demanding professionals, Drobo 5D builds 
on the fully automated functionality of previous 
Drobo arrays by adding blazing-fast perfor-
mance. Leveraging cutting-edge Thunderbolt 
and USB 3.0 connectivity—along with the inno-
vative use of solid state drives (SSDs) —Drobo 
5D is the highest-performing personal storage 
array on the planet.

Not only is Drobo 5D 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 and videos as well as 
store and back up personal data.

Built on award-winning BeyondRAID

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 technol-

ogy with single- or dual-drive redundancy, 
Drobo 5D protects your data without any user 
interaction, even in the event of multiple drive 
failures.

Drives can be added or hot-swapped on-the-fly 
for storage expansion with zero downtime. If 
you’re running low on space, the wraparound 
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.

Thunderbolt I/O technology provides perfor-
mance that’s up to 5x faster than the previous-
generation Drobo S. This allows you to move 
large amounts of data in a fraction of the time 
it used to take. 

Drobo 5D is equipped with dual Thunderbolt 
ports for daisy chaining. Connect up to six Thun-
derbolt devices and/or a non-Thunderbolt moni-
tor at the end of the chain. With six Drobo 5D 
arrays in a chain, you can have up to 96 TB of 
usable capacity. And, the bi-directional 10 Gbps 
performance of Thunderbolt allows all devices 
in the chain to achieve maximum throughput.

Drobo is the only storage array that offers Thun-
derbolt AND USB 3.0. This latest generation of 
USB also offers high-performance connectivity 
and is backward compatibility with any com-
puter running compatible versions of Mac OS X 
or Windows.

Data-Aware Tiering technology, usually 
reserved for business-class storage solutions, 
is also available in this desktop Drobo. It intelli-
gently uses the high-performance flash in SSDs 
to accelerate performance of the storage array, 
allowing applications such as Adobe Premiere 
and Apple Aperture 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. Often found only in arrays 
that cost tens of thousands of dollars, Drobo 
5D includes a battery that protects all data in 
memory, or cache, that is, data on its way to 
the drives. 

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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.

Drobo devices have always been space 
efficient and the Drobo 5D 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 5D is also significantly quieter than 
previous-generation Drobos 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.