Redefining Professional Storage. Again.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 Drobos by adding blazing-fast performance. Leveraging cutting-edge Thunderbolt

Redefining Professional Storage. Again.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 Drobos 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.Power of Thunderbolt & Flexibility of USB

• 2 x Thunderbolt ports; second port for daisy chaining Thunderbolt devices (Mac OS X only)
• 1 x USB 3.0 port
• USB cable included

• Up to five (5) 3.5" SATA II / III hard disk drives or solid state drives (sold separately) and one (1) mSATA solid state drive (sold separately)
• Expandable by adding drives or hot-swapping drives with larger ones. Use the 5-bay Capacity Calculator to estimate available storage in various configurations

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

• Drive bay indicator lights, capacity gauge, status lights
• Drobo Dashboard version 2.3 or later

• Mac OS X 10.7.x Lion
• Mac OS X 10.8.x Mountain Lion
• Windows 7 SP1 32 and 64 bit
• Windows 8 32 and 64 bit

• Mac OS X: HFS
• Windows: NTFS

• Carrier-less Drive Bays
• Power Fail Protection
• Kensington Lock Port for Security (lock not included)

• Data-Aware Tiering
• Drive Spin Down
• Dim Lights

• Drobo 5D
• 2 m (6.6 ft) USB 3.0 cable
• 1.8 m (6 ft) power cord with power supply
• Quick Start Card