Comparison of Buffalo TeraStation 5600DN and Drobo 5N

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Launch	2015	2016
Class	Small / Medium business	Small office / Home office
Dimensions	260 x 170 x 230 mm	150.3 x 185.4 x 262.3 mm
Weight	10 kg	3.9 kg
Disks
Disk bays	6 x 3.5" SATA II	5 x 3.5" SATA III
RAID	JBOD RAID0 RAID1 RAID10 RAID5 RAID50 RAID51 RAID6	BeyondRAID
SSD support	no	yes

Network
LAN ports	2 x Gigabit Ethernet	1 x Gigabit Ethernet
Wireless	no	no
Protocols	AFP CIFS/SMB FTP HTTP NFS	AFP CIFS/SMB
P2P support	no	no
Media server	DLNA Squeezebox UPnP iTunes	no
Cloud backup	Amazon S3 Dropbox	no
Connectivity
USB ports	2 x USB 2.0 2 x USB 3.0	no
eSATA ports	no	no
System
CPU	Intel Atom D2700 dual-core @ 2.13 GHz	Marvell Armada XP MV78460 quad-core @ 1.2 GHz
RAM	2 GB DDR3	1 GB DDR3
Flash		128 MB
Operating system	Buffalo	Drobo
Alternative OS
Power
Power supply	120 W, internal	12 V / 12.5 A
Consuption
Fans	2 x 92 mm	1 x 120 mm
Noise level		< 30.4 dB(A)
Features
Specials	LCD Panel Failover and link aggregation	1 x mSATA port
Administration
Default IP	DHCP
Default username	admin
Default password	password

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