For removal, there’s a small spring inside that will push the drive out when you push aside the gray securing clip. There are no guide rails on this, so it can feel a little harrowing to just jam a drive in there, but realistically it’s dead simple. It still freaks me out to have any kind of magnet by mechanical hard drives, but after swapping out several in testing, I’m reasonably assured it’s fine.Īdding drives simply requires sliding them into the bays. The entire front panel of the Drobo is held on magnetically, on firmly enough to stay on while moving the device, but easily removed by hand.
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Coming from a PC building background, where fiddling with small screws in tight spots is par for the course, it was a refreshing change. Drobo takes great pains to present their products as consumer accessible, and it shows in both the unboxing and setup process.īy far the smartest decision Drobo made in their design process was to make setup completely toolless. We unboxed the Drobo at Gestalt IT a little while back. This can be used for either bonded Ethernet, or an active-passive setup. The other big difference is the addition of a second Ethernet port (the 2 in 5N2). The knock on Drobo’s has historically been speed, and this seems to do a decent job of improving the situation (with some notable exceptions, see below). Drobo beefed up their NAS game, now offering a quad-core Marvell ARM processor. There are two big features added in the 5N2 from its predecessor. It has five drive bays and can support up to 2 disk failures without data loss. Ten years in and it seems to have aged well.įrom a spec sheet perspective, the 5N2 seems pretty well rounded.
Really since the initial Drobo devices in 2007, the company has stayed with their playful minimalist toaster design.
If you look at their previous efforts in the field, the Drobo FS and Drobo 5N, you might not notice any external difference at all. The Drobo 5N2 is Drobo’s third iteration on a NAS device.
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