Thanks to our good friends at Basco HK, we take a quick look at the Drobo 5Dt Turbo Edition. This Drobo features BeyondRAID technology and comes with dual Thunderbolt connectors and one USB 3.0. And it can daisy chain up to 6 Thunderbolt devices together.
As our data needs grow, so will the need for faster, bigger and easier to configure storage systems. NAS (network attached storage) is one solution that has been around for quite some time, allowing users to store data over their LAN. However, for the more demanding user who does a lot of video editing or photoshop/3D rendering … a NAS device may not be the best solution. What they require is a DAS (direct attached storage) which is a large, super fast external storage, that they can use to edit the files directly. For that … you need SPEED, an external USB3.0 hard drives is just not capable of such a task.
Meet the Drobo 5Dt (Turbo Editon). This unit is not a NAS as such, but actually a DAS (direct attached storage), which is just a external storage device. It features Thunderbolt 2 connectors and supports USB3.0. It’s perfect for users who want to store large files that they edit regularly. It features BeyondRAID technology which allows you mix and match drive brands, capacities and speeds. Excellent!
Here’s a little more about Drobo taken from their website …
Overview
Drobo makes award-winning data storage products for Small and Medium Businesses and Individual Professionals that provide an unprecedented combination of sophisticated data protection and management features, affordable capacity, and ease-of-use. With over 50 industry awards and hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide, Drobo has demonstrated success solving the three major storage challenges in one device – data protection, capacity adjustment, and application service-level optimization – through patented BeyondRAID™, Thin Provisioning / Reclamation, and the breakthrough Automated Data-Aware Tiering technology. WIRED Magazine recently named Drobo as one of The 10 Silicon Valley Companies You Wish You Worked for (or Started) so check out our job openings here. It’s not too late to join Drobo!
Innovative Storage Solutions
Unlike other storage options, Drobo lets users hot-swap drives, mix and match drives of different capacities, speeds, and types (SATA / SAS), and perform zero-support drive pack migration. This means that customers can optimize storage economies without worrying about drive order, data loss, downtime, or compatibility. They can swap in drives as needed, while the Drobo is running.
In terms of read/write speed, I’m expecting the Drobo 5Dt, with it’s built-in 128GB mSATA SSD, to give us very good results.
Now let’s take a closer look at the specifications and features of the Drobo 5Dt – Turbo Edition with Thunberbolt connection.
