Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have had a 4-bay Drobo for years with the only problem that it is very s-l-o-w. I also have a Drobo 5d which is much more modern. Since one can just transfer discs from an older to newer 5D I got another and transferred the discs from the old 4 bay. I don't know whether it has a more exigent drive testing algorithm in but it started all sorts of frightening recommendations about changing discs and so on. It didn't occur to me that it may be the machine (!) but just put in new discs where requested, the old ones were indeed quite old. Anyway I replaced discs which were flagged as warning, one by one, and after days of rebuilding it has worked fine ever since. OTOH I have had what may be a catastrophe with the first Drobo 5D which had been running fine for 18 months. Some file I was downloading off the internet suddenly stopped downloading for some reason, don't know if it was my internet connection playing up (it does) or the Drobo, but since it was not important and I was going out I shut down the computer. The Mac hung during shutdown and I pulled the Thunderbolt cable to my hard drives (they are daisy chained together) and the computer shut down fine. I shut down the Drobo "safely" using the rear switch toggle. Anyway, it doesn't boot any more. Drobo help have been extremely helpful, and I have tried all their suggestions and now even have a replacement unit but the fault persists when I put the discs in it and is yet to be resolved. I am waiting for their next suggestion. I reported the problem on 3rd July so it has now been 2 weeks of experiments and diagnostics. Luckily most, if not all, the important stuff on this Drobo has been backed up elsewhere, so if I do lose the all the data it won't be -that- important. But loads of funny and/or interesting clips pictures and documents accumulated over the years from internet browsing will be gone. Most I will never find again, so it is a shame. I had considered the Drobo data protection system to be analogous to a continuous backup but it seems it is not completely bullet proof. I'll let everybody know if the problem gets fixed with no or minimal data loss, but after 2 weeks I am not that optimistic any more. Frank D. On 18 Jul, 2014, at 02:41, RicCarter <ric at cartersxrd.net> wrote: > I've owned the old series 2 (4bay/usb/fw800) model for some time with good > service > > just bought series 3 4-bay for several reasons > > moved disk pack across to it > > had 2 hard drives go out in just a few days--no data loss but long > self-rebuild and plenty of fear > > they blamed the harddrives, i told them i no longer trusted the box > > they sent me a new one--no problems with this one > > old drives are in old drobo doing different service > > series 3 offers dual redundancy, quicker rebuilds, usb3, built in battery > > ric > > > > On Jul 17, 2014, at 8:07 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: > >> I started to retire Jan. 1, but am now putting in about a day or so a >> week at the office. The fact that most of my "type A" clients died >> shortly after retiring is not lost on me. How do you like the drobo? >> I've been looking at it off and on. Right now I just have several >> external HD's. I wouldn't know where to start as far as organizing past >> images, getting rid of dupes, etc. LR has been a big help there. >> >> Ken >> >> >> On 7/17/2014 4:03 PM, RicCarter wrote: >>> i've semi-retired as of july 1 >>> >>> no more office hours--half time work at home >>> >>> have not felt different yet >>> >>> added a new drobo >>> >>> ric >>> >>> >>> On Jul 17, 2014, at 4:37 PM, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> BTW in 24 hours I'll be retired from my day job. I'll need a bigger >>>> hard drive :) >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information