• 5 x 3.5" SATA III/II Drive Bays
• 1 x USB 3.0 and 2 x Thunderbolt 2 Ports
• Includes mSATA SSD for Performance
• BeyondRAID Technology
• Rechargeable Battery Helps Protect Data
• Variable-Speed Cooling Fan
• Adjustable LEDs
• Includes Thunderbolt 2 & USB 3.0 Cables
• Windows & Mac Compatible

Designed for media creators and data storage professionals who are looking for fast, expandable, and flexible data storage and protection for large media collections and performance demanding applications, as well as photo and video editing, the Drobo 5Dt 5-Bay Thunderbolt 2 Enclosure is equipped with five 3.5" SATA drive bays that support SATA III 6 Gb/s and SATA II 3 Gb/s drives.

The 5Dt is designed from the ground up to meet the data storage needs of today’s media creators and demanding professionals. The Drobo 5Dt is built on the award-winning functionality, blazing fast performance and Drobo’s unprecedented flexibility, data protection, and expandability. It offers high-speed ThunderboltTM 2 and USB 3.0, providing flexibility across two commonly used interfaces and support 4k Thunderbolt displays.

The Drobo 5Dt (Turbo Edition) includes a mSATA card for increased performance of up to 30% on streaming video and 3x read performance via Drobo’s Hot Data Cache. The 5Dt includes three years of DroboCare support, Thunderbolt 2 and USB 3.0 cables to ensure the best storage experience ever.

Leave Your Limitations Behind… Go BeyondRAID®

Built on our award-winning BeyondRAID technology, the Drobo 5D and 5Dt 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.

Drobo takes the up front guess work out of determining the amount of capacity you require. Buy the capacity you need today, and when you need more storage, simply replace your smallest drive with a larger one and immediately use that capacity in seconds. You can even mix and match drive brands, capacities and speeds.

To further enhance your experience, every Drobo comes with Smart Volume technology. Smart Volumes™ are thinly provisioned volumes that automatically utilize capacity as needed from a common pool of storage. Additionally, as data is deleted, free capacity is returned to that common pool, immediately increasing the available capacity.

Compact, Expandable Design

Expanding your storage capacity with a Drobo couldn’t be easier. There’s no long, risky process to add capacity to a Drobo – no need to go through the time consuming and complex administration of destroying your RAID sets and recreating with larger drives; and then finally restoring from your backup. When it’s time to add storage capacity to a Drobo, simply insert additional disk drives or replace the smallest disks with larger ones. The unique compact, carrier-less drive-bay design results in an attractive, efficient storage array that won’t dominate your valuable desk space.

If you’re running low on space, the lights on the front of the Drobo 5Dt tell you exactly what to do. The innovative, user-friendly industrial design allows you to add or hot-swap larger capacity drives, without tools, on the fly, for storage expansion with zero downtime. Expand your capacity without missing a beat while safely storing and backing up all personal data with ease and peace of mind. It’s that simple!

Connectivity Without Compromise

The Drobo 5Dt is the only 5 bay direct attached storage arrays that offers Thunderbolt 2 and USB 3.0.

Dual Thunderbolt 2 ports allows you to simultaneously connect up to six Thunderbolt devices at once and will support a one 4K display. With bi-directional 20 Gb/s performance, Thunderbolt 2 technology allows all devices in the chain to achieve maximum throughput.

This latest generation of Drobos with USB 3.0 also offers high-performance connectivity and is backward compatible with any computer running qualified versions of Mac OS X or Windows.

Power Protecting Your Critical Data

The 5Dt does not just protect from drive failures, it also includes a battery backup system that protects all data in memory or cache. That’s right, Enterprise grade data protection for you on your Drobo 5D and Drobo 5Dt! If power spontaneously goes away, the Drobo stays alive long enough for the data to be written to disk, ensuring your important information is always safe. The onboard battery recharges itself and is designed to last for the life of the product.