Drobo 5Dt Supports Both Thunderbolt 2 And USB 3.0

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Drobo added "Turbo" to the "5D" name, but the performance increase comes from using TB2 to quadruple the bandwidth to the host over the previous model. The new 5Dt still supports USB 3.0 at 5Gbps for systems without the high-performance interface.

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QNAP has better linux NAS units with thunderbolt and SSD caching. I heard Drobo uses it's own proprietary raid scheme so if you have a hardware failure, you have to send it to them to recover your files or buy a new Drobo.

With QNAP and Synology, they use standard linux formats(Ext3/EXT4), so you can install your drives into your Desktop tower, boot into a USB Linux Stick, and mount the raid in linux to recover your files. When i built my PC, i made sure it had enough hard drive bays for this, but as long as your motherboard has enough sata ports i guess you could just let the drives dangle next to the computer on the floor.