Drobo 5D3 -0TB

Lightning Fast Storage for Your Creative Workflow 

Part number: DRDR5A21 

The Drobo 5D3 is the 3rd generation 5 Bay Direct Attached Storage reimagined for media professionals, content creators, and small businesses. Lightning fast ThunderboltTM 3 technology delivers the speed, and Drobo’s fully automated BeyondRAIDTM functionality provides the simplicity for the best storage experience on the planet. 

The 5D3 is easy to use, expandable, flexible and protected – exactly what you would expect from a Drobo. You can safely edit, store and view photos and videos for your 4K/5K workflows, as well as back up your personal and business data. 

Data Protection and Expandability Made Simple

Built on award-winning BeyondRAIDTM technology with single- or dual-drive redundancy, Drobo 5D3 protects your data without any user interaction, even in the event of multiple drive failures. 

Drives can be added or hot-swapped and updated in real time 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 3 and Flexibility of USB Type-C

Thunderbolt 3 technology provides performance that’s twice as fast as the previous generation, Drobo 5D. This optimizes your performance when transferring large volumes of data. 

Drobo 5D3 is equipped with dual Thunderbolt

3 ports for daisy chaining. Connect up to six Thunderbolt devices and/or a non-Thunderbolt monitor at the end of the chain. Supports one 5K monitor display or two 4K monitors. By having 5D3 arrays in a chain, you can have up to 300 TB of usable capacity and achieve throughput by enabling the performance of Thunderbolt 3.

Enhanced Time Machine Support 

Drobo is compatible with Apple’s Time Machine, which will consume the capacity of an external storage system. By utilizing the Drobo Dashboard, you can simply allocate capacity limits for backups and data storage. 

Capacity AND Performance 

Drobo 5D3 includes a built-in Accelerator Bay, with an mSATA card holder (mSATA card not included). Our patented Accelerator Cache technology keeps a copy of your most frequently accessed data to deliver blazing-fast speeds. The accelerator cache can dramatically speed up loading large photo libraries and other I/O intensive operations, smoothing out workflows allowing you to optimize productivity. 

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. Often found only in arrays

that cost tens of thousands of dollars, Drobo 5D3 includes a battery that protects all data in memory, or cache, that is, data on its way to the drives. 

During a sudden power loss, the internal battery keeps the Drobo alive long enough for the data to be written to nonvolatile storage. The battery recharges itself and lasts for the life of the product. 

Designed for You 

Drobo devices have always been space efficient and the Drobo 5D3 is no exception. It is designed to provide high capacity, without taking up a

lot of your valuable desk space. It is compact because of Drobo’s unique carrier-less drive bay design, allowing drives to be installed very close to each other. Includes Thunderbolt 3 cable. 

*Laptops and computers with Thunderbolt 2 ports will require a Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 adapter. 

Specifications :

Connectivity 2 x Thunderbolt 3 ports; second port for daisy chain- ing Thunderbolt devices, including one 5K or two 4K displays (Mac OS X only) 

–  1 x USB 3.0 Type-C port 

Drives and Expansion Up 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 

–  Expandable by adding drives or hot-swapping drives with larger ones. 

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 

Management Drive bay indicator lights, capacity gauge, status lights 

–  Drobo Dashboard version 3.1.1 or later 

Operating System Support Apple® macOS X 10.12 and higher – Microsoft® Windows® 10

– Microsoft® Windows® 8 

File Systems Supported – Mac OS X: HFS+ 

– Windows: NTFS 

Hardware Features – Carrier-less drive bays

– Power fail protection with internal battery

– Metal chassis and cover

– Kensington Lock Port for security (lock not included) 

Additional Software Features – Hot Data Caching

– Drive Spin Down

– Dim Lights

– OS X Time Machine Support – Windows Backup Support 

Warranty – Two (1) year warranty 

Size and 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 and Cooling – External Power Supply:

• AC Input – 100-240VAC~2A, 50-60Hz • 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 (20 Gb/s) 

– 6 ft (1.8 m) power cord with power supply 

– Quick Start Card