Comparison of ZyXEL NSA325 v2 and Drobo 5N

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Launch	2014	2016
Class	Small office / Home office	Small office / Home office
Dimensions	207 x 164 x 123 mm	150.3 x 185.4 x 262.3 mm
Weight	1.26 kg	3.9 kg
Disks
Disk bays	2 x 3.5" SATA II	5 x 3.5" SATA III
RAID	JBOD RAID0 RAID1	BeyondRAID
SSD support	no	yes

Network
LAN ports	1 x Gigabit Ethernet	1 x Gigabit Ethernet
Wireless	no	no
Protocols	CIFS/SMB FTP HTTP NFS	AFP CIFS/SMB
P2P support	BitTorrent	no
Media server	DLNA UPnP iTunes	no
Cloud backup	Dropbox	no
Connectivity
USB ports	2 x USB 2.0 1 x USB 3.0	no
eSATA ports	no	no
System
CPU	Marvell Armada 370 88F6707 @ 1.2 GHz	Marvell Armada XP MV78460 quad-core @ 1.2 GHz
RAM	512 MB	1 GB DDR3
Flash	128 MB	128 MB
Operating system	ZyXEL	Drobo
Alternative OS
Power
Power supply	12 V / 5 A	12 V / 12.5 A
Consuption	27 W / 7 W
Fans	1 x 80 mm	1 x 120 mm
Noise level		< 30.4 dB(A)
Features
Specials		1 x mSATA port
Administration
Default IP	DHCP
Default username	admin
Default password	1234

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