#Drobo dashboard not finding drobo free

So I cloned them sector-by-sector onto identically-sized drives. Or recommending them.)Д®ventually I pulled each of the drives and checked their SMART status (OK status overall on all drives, though I also pulled the details and one of them had flags, but SMARTвЂ™s not great (see: BackblazeвЂ™s blogs on this). IвЂ™m disappointed in them and will not be purchasing future Drobos.

#Drobo dashboard not finding drobo free

(I feel like if you encrypt your deviceвЂ™s logs, you should offer free support at least for unencrypting the logs and letting the user know whatвЂ™s up. As a bonus, their error logging and messaging is either unhelpful or encrypted. Nothing worked: re-installing software, resets, the вЂњremove drives, reboot the Drobo, wait, turn it off, put the drives back inвЂ¦вЂќ And all the while status-light-wise, and Drobo Dashboard-wise, it reported everything was goodДЄnd unhappily, Drobo support costs money, and IвЂ™m cheap, so I wasted a ton of time troubleshooting it.

Sometimes if you left it connected for long enough, it would show up again, hang around for a bit, and then disconnect.

When it was mounted, youвЂ™d get a short while before the Drobo went unresponsive in the middle of an operation, and then itвЂ™d unmount (and OS X would throw a warning about dismounting drives improperly).The Drobo would sometimes not show up, or not mount, requiring a dance of restarting it, restarting the computer, plugging, unplugging.My Drobo started acting up a while ago in an incredibly frustrating way: (Writing this up for hopeful discovery of future Drobo owners)