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Drobo Data Sheet | Drobo 5N

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™ 
technology with single- or dual-drive 
redundancy, Drobo 5N protects your data 
without any user interaction, 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 
connects 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 
of any network storage system on the market 

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 
administration tasks are a single click away.

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 carrierless 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.