Comparison of Drobo 5N and ZyXEL NAS540

The side-by-side comparison of the devices’ specifications. The comparison table below makes it easier to choose the most fitting NAS.

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Launch	2016	2015
Class	Small office / Home office	Small office / Home office
Body
Dimensions	150.3 x 185.4 x 262.3 mm	190 x 225 x 160 mm
Weight	3.9 kg	2 kg
Disks
Disk bays	5 x 3.5" SATA III	4 x 3.5" SATA II
RAID	BeyondRAID	JBOD RAID0 RAID1 RAID10 RAID5 RAID6
SSD support	yes	no
Network
LAN ports	1 x Gigabit Ethernet	2 x Gigabit Ethernet
Wireless	no	no
Protocols	AFP CIFS/SMB	CIFS/SMB FTP HTTP ISCSI NFS WEBDAV
P2P support	no	BitTorrent
Media server	no	DLNA Squeezebox UPnP iTunes
Cloud backup	no	Dropbox Google Drive
Connectivity
USB ports	no	3 x USB 3.0
eSATA ports	no	no
System
CPU	Marvell Armada XP MV78460 quad-core @ 1.2 GHz	Freescale FS1024 dual-core @ 1.2 GHz
RAM	1 GB DDR3	1 GB DDR3
Flash	128 MB	256 MB
Operating system	Drobo	ZyXEL
Alternative OS
Power
Power supply	12 V / 12.5 A	12 V / 5 A
Consuption		36.5 W / 14.8 W
Fans	1 x 120 mm	1 x 120 mm
Noise level	< 30.4 dB(A)
Features
Specials	1 x mSATA port	Failover and link aggregation SD card reader
Administration
Default IP		DHCP
Default username		admin
Default password		1234

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