Can 5N disks be read by a 4-bay Drobo?

Forum History General Discussion
1

I have a Drobo 5N with 5 disks configured with dual-disk redundancy. I’m considering getting a second Drobo, the 4-bay DAS.

If I pulled four of the hard drives out of the 5N and put them in the 4-bay Drobo, would the 4-bay Drobo be able to read it?

Conversely, if would the 5N be able to read the hard disks of the 4-bay Drobo?

Thanks.

2

No and no.

3

Oh, so sad.

4

hi as john said, its not possible,
but just to mention that, after copying your data somewhere else (and verifying the copy etc), you could still reuse a drive from a 5n, into a das model, or vice versa. (eg re-purposing a drive)