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product_id: 91857557
title: "Drobo 8D 48TB Storage Array (8X6TB HDDs), Thunderbolt 3 (DRDR7A21-48TB)"
brand: "drobo"
price: "A$281"
currency: AUD
in_stock: false
reviews_count: 8
url: https://www.desertcart.com.au/products/91857557-drobo-8d-48tb-storage-array-8x6tb-hdds-thunderbolt-3-drdr7a21
store_origin: AU
region: Australia
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# Thunderbolt 3 48TB Storage Hot-Swappable Drobo 8D 48TB Storage Array (8X6TB HDDs), Thunderbolt 3 (DRDR7A21-48TB)

**Brand:** drobo
**Price:** A$281
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

## Summary

> 🚀 Elevate Your Data Game with Drobo 8D!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Drobo 8D 48TB Storage Array (8X6TB HDDs), Thunderbolt 3 (DRDR7A21-48TB) by drobo
- **How much does it cost?** A$281 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.au](https://www.desertcart.com.au/products/91857557-drobo-8d-48tb-storage-array-8x6tb-hdds-thunderbolt-3-drdr7a21)

## Best For

- drobo enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted drobo brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Unmatched Scalability:** Easily expand your storage with hot-swappable drives.
- • **Designed for Creatives:** Perfect for data-intensive workflows and small businesses.
- • **Award-Winning Performance:** Recognized for excellence in data management.
- • **Lightning-Fast Connectivity:** Experience 20Gbps speeds with Thunderbolt 3.
- • **Intelligent Volume Management:** Automated data protection for peace of mind.

## Overview

The Drobo 8D 48TB Storage Array is a highly scalable, award-winning direct attached storage solution designed for creative professionals and small to medium businesses. With dual Thunderbolt 3 ports, it supports up to 8 SATA HDDs and offers intelligent volume management, ensuring seamless data protection and expansion. Ideal for data-intensive workflows, it includes a 20Gbps Thunderbolt 3 cable and features hot-swappable drives for ultimate convenience.

## Description

Transform your storage workflow. Meet the bigger, better, bolder Drobo 8D. At a 128TB volume size, the Drobo 8D is designed to meet the need for data intensive workflows. With Lightning speed Thunderbolt 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 beyond RAID Technology. The 8D is also ideal as primary storage for SMB requiring reliable, easy to use, High capacity solutions. This latest direct Attached solution offers high-performance connectivity and is backward compatible with any computer running supported Mac OS. Drobo 8D comes with an accelerator Bay in a rear mounted slot for an SSD (not included) to enable the patented Drobo Accelerator Cache technology. The Drobo hot data Cache keeps a copy of your most frequently accessed transactional data so that it can be delivered even faster when you need it. Drobo 8D includes a battery that protects all data in flight. During a sudden power loss, the battery keeps the Drobo functioning long enough for the data to be written to non-volatile storage (written to an included internal SSD storage device), ensuring your important information is always safe. Drobo LEDs can also be dimmed to reduce light pollution in photo and video editing environments. Backward compatible with any computer running supported macOS

## Features

- Highly scalable direct attached storage array with 2 x Thunderbolt 3 ports
- Holds up to 8 x 3. 5" Sata HDDs. Optional SSD boosts performance. Expandable by adding drives or hot-swapping drives with larger ones. On-line and instant capacity expansion
- Intelligent volume management for flexibility & Convenience. Ideal for data-intensive workflows, creative professionals, and small to medium businesses with 128TB volume support
- Drobo 8D PC perspective gold award recipient. Award-winning Beyond automated data protection. Internal battery backup protects data against power interruptions
- Designed and created for macOS. Includes 20Gbps Thunderbolt 3 cable. *Units with hard drives include Seagate barracuda Pro HDDs

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Hard Drive | 48 TB Mechanical Hard Disk |
| Brand | Drobo |
| Item model number | DRDR7A21-48TB |
| Hardware Platform | PC |
| Item Weight | 16.4 pounds |
| Product Dimensions | 14.1 x 5.46 x 12.7 inches |
| Item Dimensions  LxWxH | 14.1 x 5.46 x 12.7 inches |
| Color | Gold |
| Hard Drive Interface | Serial ATA-600 |
| Hard Drive Rotational Speed | 7200 RPM |
| Batteries | 1 Lithium Ion batteries required. (included) |
| Manufacturer | PC- Drobo direct |
| ASIN | B07K752L8R |
| Date First Available | October 27, 2018 |

## Images

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## Available Options

This product comes in different **Capacity** options.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    I cannot return the item as America has blocked the transportation for the last month
  

*by M***L on Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2020*

I have a few of these machines and they have never failed to let me down I purchased one when the first came out, I store all my movies and work files on them I have now 11 devices one of them must by a little over 10 years old operating day and night and is still going. It’s a shame they stopped the drobo mini, I sent I picture to them of a similar design to that before they brought it out unfortunately it would only take the slim 2.5‘’ hard drives. I carry these things everywhere all over the world and they work perforce on Mac and pc. And I’ve tried all different types on the market nothing beats drobo

### ⭐ 1.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    great Idea, terrible customer service
  

*by A***A on Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2019*

Update: 6months later Drivesafers , a company that specializes in drive rescue, GAVE UP on my drobo Restauration! They could not recover a single file!Stay away from drobo’s people!m along time drobo users. I had a second gen, I had a Drobo 5D and then dared to upgrade to the new 8D. After migration of my drive set it worked fine for a week. Same speed (disappointing) but ok. then its got all read and refused to see ANY drives. I opened a support case. and from then it went bad..its been 45 DAYS now that their customer support is working on this. They never reach out, I have to follow up every 2-3 days. Its now with developers to create a custom firmware. Im beyond frustrated at this point. All my data is in jeopardy , this 1200$ brick is sitting here with no silver lining yet. Drobo refuses to pay for data recovery.Drobo are great when they work. But never trust it with your ONLY backup eve though they sell it as if its bulletproof. google around lots of professional photographers writing similar posts sadly.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Great device for photography and other creative editing.
  

*by R***R on Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2019*

Video, photo and audio editing.  I filled it with 8 10TB Seagate Barracuda Pro hard drives and set it to use dual disk failure mode and still be able to operate.  It has functioned very well to this point.  I also outfitted it with a 512GB 860 SSD in the SSD slot.  My only issue with functionality is it will occasionally pause, like it is buffering even when using simple SD recorded video.  That is irritating.  Tech support is frustrating to reach.  Great to work with but it is like trying to reach a member of congress.  In summary, I love this thing and hope to solve my one small buffering issue soon.

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*Last updated: 2026-03-08*