If getting the fastest performance possible is your thing, you can also load up every drive bay with SSDs. To keep capacity of the Drobo at a maximum, the Drobo Accelerator Bay accepts an industry-standard mSATA SSD, leaving all five 3.5” drives bays available for high-capacity HDDs. It intelligently uses the high-performance flash in SSDs to accelerate performance of the storage array, allowing applications such as Adobe Premiere and Apple Aperture fast access to data. Interestingly, the 5D and Mini have a battery backup to safely shutdown the device and an mSATA add-on that purports to increase performance:ĭata-Aware Tiering technology, usually reserved for business-class storage solutions, is also available in this desktop Drobo. And, the bi-directional 10 Gbps performance of Thunderbolt allows all devices in the chain to achieve maximum throughput. With six Drobo 5D arrays in a chain, you can have up to 96 TB of usable capacity. Connect up to six Thunderbolt devices and/or a non-Thunderbolt monitor at the end of the chain. Today, Drobo announced a new Thunderbolt product, the 5D, with some serious specs:ĭrobo 5D is equipped with dual Thunderbolt ports for daisy chaining. However, it seems to be doing well with its “Bring your own storage” model, and the products are rated well on Amazon, so the company must be doing something right. I’m not going to lie: I’ve heard enough Drobo horror stories to steer clear of its products for a while now.
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