The Drobo 5D3 is the 3rd generation 5 Bay direct-attached storage (DAS), reimagined for media professionals, content creators, & small businesses. Lightning fast Thunderbolt 3 technology delivers the speed, while Drobo’s fully automated Beyond RAID functionality provides the simplicity. Not only is the 5D3 fast, but it’s easy to use, expandable, flexible & protected. You can safely edit, store & view photos & videos in your 4K/5K workflow, as well as backup your personal & business data. Specifications Connectivity 2 x Thunderbolt 3 ports; second port for daisy chaining Thunderbolt devices, including 5K & dual 4K displays (Mac OS X only) 1 x USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0, Type-C port Drives & Expansion Up to five (5) 3.5& Prime; SATA II/III hard disk drives or solid state drives (sold separately). Drobo Accelerator Bay for increased performance with one (1) m SATA solid state drive (card sold separately). Drives of any manufacturer, capacity, spindle speed, and/or cache can be used. No carriers or tools required. Expandable by adding drives or hot-swapping drives with larger ones. Beyond RAID 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 Management Drive bay indicator lights, capacity gauge, status lights Drobo Dashboard version 3.1.1 or later Operating System Support Apple Macintosh mac OS 10.10 & higher Microsoft Windows 10 Microsoft Windows 8 Microsoft Windows 7 File System Options Apple mac OS: HFS+ Microsoft Windows: NTFS Hardware Features Carrier-less Drive Bays Power Fail Protection with Internal Battery Metal Chassis & Cover Kensington Lock Port for Security (lock not included) Additional Software Features Hot Data Caching Maximum System Capacity: 64TB Drive Spin Down Dim Lights mac OS Time Machine Support Warranty Two (2) year warranty Size & Weight 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 Power & Cooling External Power Supply: AC Input – 100-240VAC~2A, 50-60 Hz DC Output – 12V, 10A, 120W max Fixed, 120mm variable speed cooling fan 15W of power to slow charge a Thunderbolt 3 Laptop Box Contents Drobo 5D3 3.3 ft (1 m) Thunderbolt 3 cable 6 ft (1.8 m) power cord with power supply Quick Start Card





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The Drobo 5D3 is the 3rd generation 5 Bay direct-attached storage (DAS), reimagined for media professionals, content creators, & small businesses. Lightning fast Thunderbolt 3 technology delivers the speed, while Drobo’s fully automated Beyond RAID functionality provides the simplicity. Not only is the 5D3 fast, but it’s easy to use, expandable, flexible & protected. You can safely edit, store & view photos & videos in your 4K/5K workflow, as well as backup your personal & business data. Specifications Connectivity 2 x Thunderbolt 3 ports; second port for daisy chaining Thunderbolt devices, including 5K & dual 4K displays (Mac OS X only) 1 x USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0, Type-C port Drives & Expansion Up to five (5) 3.5& Prime; SATA II/III hard disk drives or solid state drives (sold separately). Drobo Accelerator Bay for increased performance with one (1) m SATA solid state drive (card sold separately). Drives of any manufacturer, capacity, spindle speed, and/or cache can be used. No carriers or tools required. Expandable by adding drives or hot-swapping drives with larger ones. Beyond RAID 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 Management Drive bay indicator lights, capacity gauge, status lights Drobo Dashboard version 3.1.1 or later Operating System Support Apple Macintosh mac OS 10.10 & higher Microsoft Windows 10 Microsoft Windows 8 Microsoft Windows 7 File System Options Apple mac OS: HFS+ Microsoft Windows: NTFS Hardware Features Carrier-less Drive Bays Power Fail Protection with Internal Battery Metal Chassis & Cover Kensington Lock Port for Security (lock not included) Additional Software Features Hot Data Caching Maximum System Capacity: 64TB Drive Spin Down Dim Lights mac OS Time Machine Support Warranty Two (2) year warranty Size & Weight 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 Power & Cooling External Power Supply: AC Input – 100-240VAC~2A, 50-60 Hz DC Output – 12V, 10A, 120W max Fixed, 120mm variable speed cooling fan 15W of power to slow charge a Thunderbolt 3 Laptop Box Contents Drobo 5D3 3.3 ft (1 m) Thunderbolt 3 cable 6 ft (1.8 m) power cord with power supply Quick Start Card





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The Drobo 5N was designed with one purpose in mind: to deliver the best ever experience sharing storage & accessing data. From the moment you plug it in & 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 & backing up data over the network. Not only is Drobo 5N fast, but it’s easy-to-use, expandable, flexible, & protected—exactly what’s expected from a Drobo. You can safely store & edit photos, videos, & audio files as well as store & back up all the computers on your network. Contains the WD Red HDD’s NAS optimised for up to 8 bays Desktop solutions, Designed for Low duty cycle environment with 3 years warranty Data Protection & Expandability Made Simple Built on award-winning Beyond RAID technology with single- or dual-drive redundancy, Drobo 5N protects your data without any user interaction, even in the event of multiple drive failures. & like all Drobo products, it’s fast & easy to set up & 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 & replace it with a larger one. High-Speed Connectivity The Drobo 5N is equipped with a single Gigabit Ethernet port for network connectivity & connects directly to your network to make sharing your data easy. Just plug it into any switch or wireless router & 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. Capacity & Performance 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 & Apple i Photo or i Tunes 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. Power Protecting Your Critical Data 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 & lasts for the life of the product. Centralized Backup for Your Entire Network The Drobo 5N enables network backup for Mac & 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 today. Using Time Machine with Drobo 5N is as easy as one click in Drobo Dashboard. Designed for You Drobo devices have always been space efficient & 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. Drobo Dashboard 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 & capacity gauge that are on the front panel. All administration tasks are a single click away

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The Drobo 5N was designed with one purpose in mind: to deliver the best ever experience sharing storage & accessing data. From the moment you plug it in & 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 & backing up data over the network. Not only is Drobo 5N fast, but it’s easy-to-use, expandable, flexible, & protected—exactly what’s expected from a Drobo. You can safely store & edit photos, videos, & audio files as well as store & back up all the computers on your network. Contains the WD Red HDD’s NAS optimised for up to 8 bays Desktop solutions, Designed for Low duty cycle environment with 3 years warranty Data Protection & Expandability Made Simple Built on award-winning Beyond RAID technology with single- or dual-drive redundancy, Drobo 5N protects your data without any user interaction, even in the event of multiple drive failures. & like all Drobo products, it’s fast & easy to set up & 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 & replace it with a larger one. High-Speed Connectivity The Drobo 5N is equipped with a single Gigabit Ethernet port for network connectivity & connects directly to your network to make sharing your data easy. Just plug it into any switch or wireless router & 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. Capacity & Performance 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 & Apple i Photo or i Tunes 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. Power Protecting Your Critical Data 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 & lasts for the life of the product. Centralized Backup for Your Entire Network The Drobo 5N enables network backup for Mac & 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 today. Using Time Machine with Drobo 5N is as easy as one click in Drobo Dashboard. Designed for You Drobo devices have always been space efficient & 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. Drobo Dashboard 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 & capacity gauge that are on the front panel. All administration tasks are a single click away

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The Drobo 5N was designed with one purpose in mind: to deliver the best ever experience sharing storage & accessing data Key Features Drives/ Capacity
- Up to 5 3.5” SATA I/II/III HDDs or SSDs Connectivity
- 1 x Gigabit Ethernet port (6 ft Ethernet cable provided) Form Factor
- Desktop Management
- Drive bay indicator lights, capacity gauge, status lights Network
- Common Internet File System (CIFS)/ Server Message Block (SMB) The Drobo 5N was designed with one purpose in mind: to deliver the best ever experience sharing storage & accessing data. From the moment you plug it in & 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 & backing up data over the network. Not only is Drobo 5N fast, but it’s easy-to-use, expandable, flexible, & protected—exactly what’s expected from a Drobo. You can safely store & edit photos, videos, & audio files as well as store & back up all the computers on your network.




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Key Features 5 x 3.5" SATA III/II Drive Bays 1 x m SATA SSD Drive Bay 2 x Gigabit Ethernet Ports Adaptive Link Bonding The latest generation 5 Bay NAS, the Drobo 5N2 delivers an unparalleled user experience for data sharing, secure backup, remote access & disaster recovery solutions. The 5N2 is the fastest, network attached Drobo available to prosumers & provides up to 2x performance boost with an upgraded processor & port bonding option. The 5N2 is built with Drobo’s patented Beyond RAID technology to meet the demanding data storage requirements of connected home users, media professionals & small businesses. The expanded functionality

Includes:: technology features of Drobo’s enterprise level products, such as Drobo DR for disaster recovery backup. By implementing a level of automation usually preserved for more expensive solutions, & still maintaining the award-winning simplicity found in all Drobos, the 5N2 is the easiest to use NAS on the market.

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Key Features 5 x 3.5" SATA III/II Drive Bays 1 x m SATA SSD Drive Bay 2 x Gigabit Ethernet Ports Adaptive Link Bonding The latest generation 5 Bay NAS, the Drobo 5N2 delivers an unparalleled user experience for data sharing, secure backup, remote access & disaster recovery solutions. The 5N2 is the fastest, network attached Drobo available to prosumers & provides up to 2x performance boost with an upgraded processor & port bonding option. The 5N2 is built with Drobo’s patented Beyond RAID technology to meet the demanding data storage requirements of connected home users, media professionals & small businesses. The expanded functionality

Includes:: technology features of Drobo’s enterprise level products, such as Drobo DR for disaster recovery backup. By implementing a level of automation usually preserved for more expensive solutions, & still maintaining the award-winning simplicity found in all Drobos, the 5N2 is the easiest to use NAS on the market.

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Key Features 5 x 3.5" SATA III/II Drive Bays 1 x m SATA SSD Drive Bay 2 x Gigabit Ethernet Ports Adaptive Link Bonding The latest generation 5 Bay NAS, the Drobo 5N2 delivers an unparalleled user experience for data sharing, secure backup, remote access & disaster recovery solutions. The 5N2 is the fastest, network attached Drobo available to prosumers & provides up to 2x performance boost with an upgraded processor & port bonding option. The 5N2 is built with Drobo’s patented Beyond RAID technology to meet the demanding data storage requirements of connected home users, media professionals & small businesses. The expanded functionality

Includes:: technology features of Drobo’s enterprise level products, such as Drobo DR for disaster recovery backup. By implementing a level of automation usually preserved for more expensive solutions, & still maintaining the award-winning simplicity found in all Drobos, the 5N2 is the easiest to use NAS on the market.

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Key Features 5 x 3.5" SATA III/II Drive Bays 1 x m SATA SSD Drive Bay 2 x Gigabit Ethernet Ports Adaptive Link Bonding The latest generation 5 Bay NAS, the Drobo 5N2 delivers an unparalleled user experience for data sharing, secure backup, remote access & disaster recovery solutions. The 5N2 is the fastest, network attached Drobo available to prosumers & provides up to 2x performance boost with an upgraded processor & port bonding option. The 5N2 is built with Drobo’s patented Beyond RAID technology to meet the demanding data storage requirements of connected home users, media professionals & small businesses. The expanded functionality

Includes:: technology features of Drobo’s enterprise level products, such as Drobo DR for disaster recovery backup. By implementing a level of automation usually preserved for more expensive solutions, & still maintaining the award-winning simplicity found in all Drobos, the 5N2 is the easiest to use NAS on the market.

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Key Features 5 x 3.5" SATA III/II Drive Bays 1 x m SATA SSD Drive Bay 2 x Gigabit Ethernet Ports Adaptive Link Bonding The latest generation 5 Bay NAS, the Drobo 5N2 delivers an unparalleled user experience for data sharing, secure backup, remote access & disaster recovery solutions. The 5N2 is the fastest, network attached Drobo available to prosumers & provides up to 2x performance boost with an upgraded processor & port bonding option. The 5N2 is built with Drobo’s patented Beyond RAID technology to meet the demanding data storage requirements of connected home users, media professionals & small businesses. The expanded functionality

Includes:: technology features of Drobo’s enterprise level products, such as Drobo DR for disaster recovery backup. By implementing a level of automation usually preserved for more expensive solutions, & still maintaining the award-winning simplicity found in all Drobos, the 5N2 is the easiest to use NAS on the market.

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