Built on our award-winning BeyondRAID technology, the Drobo 5N protects your data without any intervention – even in the event of multiple drive failures. You can even switch from single to dual disk redundancy with a single click, ensuring enterprise-level dual parity data protection when

Built on our award-winning BeyondRAID technology, the Drobo 5N protects your data without any intervention – even in the event of multiple drive failures. You can even switch from single to dual disk redundancy with a single click, ensuring enterprise-level dual parity data protection when required. Drobo’s with BeyondRAID are also self-healing and have virtual hot-spares. If a drive happens to fail, Drobo will automatically re-layout the data to return to a protected state without disruption.The Drobo 5N enables you to centralize your network backup for Mac and Windows users in small offices or workgroup environments. With the most seamless support for Apple Time Machine by any network storage system on the market, backing up your data is as easy as clicking a box in the Drobo DashboardConnectivity1 x Gigabit Ethernet portDrives and ExpansionUp to five (5) 3.5″ SATA II/III hard disk drives or solid state drives (sold separately).One (1) mSATA solid state drive in the Drobo Accelerator Bay for increased performance (sold separately).Drives of any manufacturer, capacity, spindle speed, and/or cache can be used. No carriers or tools required. Click here for drive recommendations.Expandable by adding drives or hot-swapping drives with larger ones. Use the Capacity Calculator to estimate available storage in various configurations.BeyondRAID Features

• Thin Provisioning
• Instant Expansion
• Mixed Drive Size Utilization
• Automatic Protection Levels
• Single – or Dual-Disk Redundancy
• Virtual Hot Spare
• Data Aware
• Drive Re-ordering

• Drive bay indicator lights, capacity gauge, status lights
• Drobo Dashboard version 2.6 or later

• Mac OS X 10.7 and higher
• Windows 8/8.1 32 and 64 bit
• Windows 7 32 and 64 bit

• Common Internet File System (CIFS) / Server Message Block (SMB)
• Apple Filing Protocol (AFP)

• Carrier-less Drive Bays
• Power Fail Protection

• Desktop Form Factor
• Width: 5.9 in (150.3 mm)
• Height: 7.3 in (185.4 mm)
• Depth: 10.3 in (262.3 mm)
• Weight: 8.5 lb (3.9 kg) without hard drives, power supply, or packaging

• External Power Supply:
• AC Input – 100-240VAC~2A, 50-60Hz
• DC Output – 12V, 12.5A, 150W max
• Dual, fixed, variable speed cooling fans

• Drobo 5N
• 6 ft (1.8 m) Ethernet cable
• 6 ft (1.8 m) power cord with power supply
• Quick Start Card