Drobo 8D
Product Description
The Power to Transform Your Workflow
Transform your storage workflow. Meet the bigger, better, bolder Drobo 8D. Capable of supporting 16 volumes of up to 128TB, with a total storage pool of 256TB, 8D is designed to meet the need for data-intensive workflows. With lightning speed ThunderboltTM 3, the Drobo 8D is the fastest direct attached Drobo yet. The Drobo 8D is the only Drobo with the Intelligent Volume Management, which allows for the flexibility of manual and automated management of storage pools.
Creative professionals will experience the editing power for media rich, high resolution workflows with the protection of Drobo’s patented BeyondRAIDTM technology. The 8D is also ideal as primary storage for SMBs requiring reliable, easy to use, high capacity solutions.
Data Protection and Expandability Made Simple
Built on award-winning BeyondRAIDTM technology with single- or dual-drive redundancy, Drobo 8D 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
Thunderbolt 3 technology provides lightning fast speed. This optimizes your performance when transferring large volumes of data.
Drobo 8D is equipped with dual Thunderbolt
3 ports for daisy chaining. Connects up to
six Thunderbolt devices or five devices and a monitor at the end of the chain.* Supports one 5K monitor display or two 4K monitors. By having 8D arrays in a chain, you can have up to 588 TB of usable capacity and achieve throughput by enabling the bi-directional 40 Gbps performance of Thunderbolt 3.
Intelligent Volume Management
The Drobo 8D features Intelligent Volume Management, the flexibility of manual volume management and the convenience of automated volume management. The 8D allows for the creation of 16 volumes with up to 128TB, with a total storage pool of 256TB. The 8D allows the creation of up to 16 volumes with a maximum 128TB volume size
Enhanced Time Machine Support
Drobo is compatible with Apple’s Time Machine. Time Machine can consume the entire 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 chaining Thunderbolt devices, including one 5K or two 4K displays (macOS only)
Drives and Expansion
Up to eight (8) 3.5”SATA hard disk drives or solid state drives (sold separately)
One (1) 2.5” 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. Click here for drive recommendations
Expandable by adding drives or hot-swapping drives with larger ones. Use the Capacity Calculator to estimate available storage in various configurations.
BeyondRAID Features
Thin Provisioning
Instant Expansion
Mixed Drive Size Utilization
Automatic Protection Levels
Single – or Dual-Disk Redundancy
Virtual Hot Spare
Data-Aware Tiering
Drive Re-ordering
Management
Drive bay indicator lights, capacity gauge, status lights
Drobo Dashboard version 3.3.0 or late
Operating System Support
Apple® macOS 10.12 and higher
File System Options
macOS: HFS+
Hardware Features
Carrier-less drive bays
Power fail protection with internal battery
Metal chassis and cover
Rear slot for 2.5” SATA SSD
Hybrid Storage
Automated Data-Aware Tiering
Kensington Lock Port for security (lock not included)
Additional Software Features
Hot Data Caching
Maximum System Capacity: 128TB
Drive Spin Down
Dim Lights
macOS Time Machine Support
Intelligent Volume Management
Warranty
ONE (1) year warranty
Size and Weight
Desktop Form Factor
Width: 12.17 in (309.1 mm)
Height: 5.46 in (138.7 mm)
Depth: 14.1 in (358.1 mm)
Weight: 16 lb 4 oz (7.4 kg) without hard drives, or packaging
Power and Cooling
Internal Power Supply:
AC Input – 100-240VAC~3.5A, 50-60Hz
DC Output – 12V, 20.8A, 250W max
Dual, fixed cooling fans
15W of power to slow charge a Thunderbolt 3 laptop
Box Contents
Drobo 8D
3.3 ft (1 m) Thunderbolt 3 cable
6 ft (1.8 m) power cord
Certifications Feature
Environmental: RoHS,
Regulatory Compliance for US, Canada, EU, Australia/New Zealand, Japan, and Korea: FCC Part 15 Subpart B; ICES-003 Issue 6; EN 55024, EN55032,
EN61000-3-2; EN61000-3-3; AS/NZS CISPR 32; VCCI-CISPR 32-2016; KN32; KN 35
Safety: UL, CB, CAN/CSA-22.2 No. 60950-1
Product Part Numbers
Americas: DRDR7A21
Europe, Middle East & Africa: DRDR7A31
Asia Pacific: DRDR7A61 / DRDR7A51
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