![]() Tamron – Need lightweight, compact mirrorless lenses? Tamron has you covered, with superior optics perfect for any situation. That size volume is not ridiculous at all. How nice to have a storage device that won’t obsolete in two or three years. Drobo’s 64Tb volume upgrade demonstrates a long range storage solution road map for photographers. With 8Tb drives it would be 40 terabytes. That’s less than half of the 64Tb volume size. Six terabytes times five bays comes up to thirty terabytes. Currently 6 terabyte hard drives are readily available with 8Tb drives coming to market slowly. That’s much larger than the Drobo 5D can physically hold. My takeĪ 64 terabyte volume seems ridiculous at first glance because it’s massive. When I had to reset one of my 5D’s to set up the 16Tb volume, I still had three copies. ![]() That’s four copies of everything, everyday. It also backs up to a Drobo B810n at my home over the internet. My working Drobo 5D backs up to a second one every evening and then to an eight bay Drobo B800i, here in my studio. That said I do practice safe backup procedures. Since then I’ve built on this storage and backup platform with great success and absolutely no data loss whatsoever. I put my first Drobo, a second generation 4-bay, on line on October 10, 2008. I’ve been a Drobo user for a long time in computer years. Once the volume is created it will offer the option on Macs, to create a Time Machine backup volume. Once formatted, a dialog opens asking for the volume size. The Drobo offers the style of formatting based on the computer’s operating system. ![]() Get back to the Format / Remind dialog, restart Drobo Dashboard. Choosing the Remind option, will keep the dashboard from even recognizing the new or reset Drobo. The options are format and remind me later. Setting the volume sizeĪs soon as Drobo Dashboard sees a new or reset Drobo, it opens a window asking if you want to format the Drobo. Unless you’ve backed up your data, stop reading this post. Resetting the 5D erases all of the data on it. Seriously! Changing Volume size will only work on a brand new Drobo 5D or one that has been reset. W A R N I N G ! Back up the 5D before changing volume size Finally a message will ask to restart the Drobo to finish the firmware update. A dialog opens asking for the location of the firmware update file ending in. Wait until they are all solid green before updating the firmware.Ĭlick OK in the Drobo Update window. If the Drobo is remapping data to a larger capacity, the drive lights on the right will be flashing between green and amber. The activity light on the Drobo will not be flashing. The Update Drobo window will appear telling you to stop all data transfers to the Drobo being updated. Click on the Tools button.Go to the Software updates section. Once the download is complete, go to the Drobo Dashboard, choose the 5D to upgrade. Double click it to get to the firmware update. The file, () will be downloaded to your Downloads folder on both Mac and Windows. Once the update has finished Installing the Drobo Dashboard update will require a restart of the computer.ĭownload the firmware update by clicking on the Drobo 5D 3.5.0 Firmware link. ![]() The installer walks you through updating the dashboard software. It’s a free download on the page featured on the link. Update the Drobo Dashboard software to version 2.8.1. Drobo 5D update will take you to the update page. The update for your Drobo 5D is available on their website. Updating the Drobo 5D Update Drobo Dashboard Once the capacity exceeded 16 terabytes, a new volume had to be created. ![]() Drobo volumes on the 5D have been limited to a maximum of 16 terabytes. ![]()
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