I hate it when this happens… It looks like a 4TB drive in my 5-bay Drobo has gone out. Drobo cannot detect it. I have dual-drive redundancy enabled, so two drives can fail and I’d still have my data… Fortunately.
Hopefully, I won’t have two drives fail between now and the time my replacement drive arrives. :)
On the plus, drive prices have dropped since I bought these drives in 2019. I’ll begin the process of upgrading drives to 6TB models over coming months, money permitting.
(Cross posting from my Appleause.com website. Over there, I post things related to Apple, Mac, iOS, etc.)
The Drobo 5C was introduced in October 2016 for $349. There has already been a $50 discount code ($299) and a one-day Amazon.com sale (also $299). Yesterday, the price tracking site, Camel Camel Camel, alerted me of a $279 price on Amazon:
http://camelcamelcamel.com/Drobo-5-Drive-Attached-Storage-DDR4A21/product/B01LWNHFBR?context=tracker
By the time you see this posting, the price may no longer be valid, but you might consider activating a Camel Camel Camel account to do your own tracking. You will receive an e-mail alert when the desired item (anything on Amazon) reaches the price you want. It also shows a historic graph of the price the item has been since tracking began.
Merry Christmas.
My other site, Appleause, will be posting a multi-part review of the recently released 5-bay Drobo 5C:
I have been working on a multi-part article about the Data Robotics Drobo storage device. It documents my experience moving from the 2nd generation model to the 3rd generation model.
You can find it over at my Mac-centric site, Appleause. Start here: