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It does a crazy dance for a bit then settles on one green one red.
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Plugging in the power I expect it to spring to life… Ah, power button. Clicking the Cat6 cable into the last open port in the switch in this room makes me think I should have gone with the 8 port instead of the 4. I wedged it in between my Wii and my roommate’s Xbox. It’s good to have computers lying around everywhere. Panic subsiding, I realize I could get out my netbook and stream music from the copy I’ve made on my existing RAID array on another computer. With greater worry it occurs to me that the music is playing off of this drive.
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It occurs to me at this point that I’ll need to shut down this computer to get my starting drive out.
#Drobo dashboard windows not seeing drive install
Finishing the install opens the Dashboard with the flashing Drobo logo: “Ready for Connection”. Proceding with the install from the CD was uneventful. This is, of course, the perspective of someone who works in Support, but the latest installations should always be available on the website, even if there are no updates to what shipped. I was surprised that it said Drobo FS users should install from the included disk and to contact support if you didn’t have it. Then I figured I would check their support downloads to install the latest version from there. Not all that important, but those are the kind of oversights that would bother me in my job.
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I was surprised to see that they didn’t have Windows 7 listed on their question of which OS it would be used with. I took a detour and registered my Drobo from the CD’s link. Removing this inner box reveals the actual device, well protected by foam.
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There is a 6′ Cat 6 cable underneath the User Guide. This inner box I’ve described contains the CD and the User Guide on the left and the power cord on the right. The Drobo Calculator ( ) and a KB article ( ) suggest that it will function with one. I”m pretty sure this is just because you need more than one to to protect against a drive failure. One minor concern is that it says to start with at least two drives. The simple instructions underneath suggest that I 1.Install Dashboard, 2. Packaging may not be a huge deal, but it is a nice first impression.
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Lifting the flap of the inner box revealed the white on black distinctive drobo lettering. The packaging sustained this feeling as I opened the outer shipping box to be greeted with the words “Welcome to the world of…”. UnboxingĪnticipation was already high as it was a new tech toy I had wanted for a long time. I’ll need to be able to move 1.1Tb elsewhere before I can take apart the array and move those three drives into the Drobo. Then I can move some files over to make enough space to clear another drive, etc. My plan is to clear the 1Tb drive of my current system and start the Drobo with that. I’ll need to shift files around to be able to move empty drives to the Drobo. There is also a 1TB drive on that system and a 1Tb drive on my current system (built Jan 2010). So the array is hanging in there in a degraded state with three drives. Then the replacement died while I was waiting for my Drobo to arrive (RMA in progress). One of those drives died and was RMA’d a few months ago. My current storage situation is that I have a 4 x 500Gb RAID5 array on the motherboard (DFI LanParty NForce 590) of a computer I built at the end of 2006.