Drobo 5D DRDR5A31/8TBNAS データシート

Drobo Data Sheet | Drobo 5D

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 performance. Leveraging cutting-edge 
Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 connectivity — along 
with the innovative 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™ 
technology 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 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 
performance 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 
Thunderbolt devices and/or a non-Thunderbolt 
monitor 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 Gb/s 
performance of Thunderbolt allows all devices in 
the chain to achieve maximum throughput.

Drobo is the only storage array that offers 
Thunderbolt AND USB 3.0. This latest 
generation of USB also offers high-performance 
connectivity and is backward compatible with 
any computer running qualified 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 intelligently 
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.

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.

When power spontaneously goes away, the 
battery keeps the Drobo alive long enough for 
the data to be written to nonvolatile 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 to provide high capacity without 
taking up a lot of your valuable desk space. It is 
compact because of Drobo’s unique carrier-less 
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.