How do I know my data is protected?

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I have just added 2 x 2 TB drives to my my Drobo which now has 2 x 1 TB and 2 x 2 TB installed. I had not made sufficient allowance for expansion when I first set it up so I used reset in Drobo Dashboard, set the max storage to 16 TB and allowed Drobo to reformat (HFS+).

I have now copied about 890 GB to the Drobo. I have 4 green lights and two blue lights which seems fine. However, I have not seen the blinking green and yellow indicating that Drobo is going through optimization. Is this OK?

I apologise for asking such a basic question but how do I know that Drobo is protecting my data? To me it looks like I might have just a large external drive.

Thanks

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blinking green and yellow means that drobo is rebuilding lost data (because a drive failed or was removed)

optimisation/redistribution/de-fragmentation all occur in the background and are transparent to the end user - they do not produce flashing lights.

Flashing lights are only used as an indication that redundancy has been lost and is being rebuilt and therefore do no remove any drives.

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Thanks for the reply - I’m reassured.

Cheers