** Redefining Professional Storage. Again.** Redesigned from the ground up to meet the data storage needs of todays media creators & demanding professionals, Drobo 5D builds on the fully automated functionality of previous Drobo arrays by adding blazing-fast performance. Leveraging cutting-edge Thunderbolt & USB (Universal Serial Bus) 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 its easy-to-use, expandable, flexible, & protected--exactly whats expected from a Drobo. You can safely store & edit photos & videos as well as store & back up personal data. ** Data Protection & Expandability Made Simple** Built on award-winning Beyond RAID™ 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 youre 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 & replace it with a larger one. ** Power of Thunderbolt & Flexibility of USB** Thunderbolt I/O technology provides performance thats up to 5x faster than the previousgeneration Drobo S. This means that you can 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. &, 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 Thunderbolt & USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0. This latest generation of USB (Universal Serial Bus) also offers high-performance connectivity & is backward compatibi