Hi all,
I have two drobo’s, both identical, one as a backup of the other.
As the content does not change very often I am trying to find out how to make the backup drobo stay asleep to save wear and tear on the drives.
I have tried ejecting it from the mac but it stays awake, I tried ejecting it then going into dashboard and issuing a sleep command, it did sleep but woke up again when I next woke the mac up.
Short of unplugging it, is there a way to keep a drobo asleep when not wanted?
Most likely something on the Mac is still accessing the Drobo… Spotlight, antivirus, something…
Disconnecting the data cable is the only 100% surefire way to ensure there’s no access.
Ok thanks.
If it really irks you, you could put Drobo on a USB-network device like a Silex USB device server.
It’s a USB-over-network connection, and you use the SX Virtual Link software to connect/disconnect the USB connection. To the computer and device it really looks like a connect/disconnect, so that should be enough to let Drobo sleep without physically pulling the plug.
Of course if you can physically eject and pull the plug, that’s the $0 solution. 
that silex device sounds interesting. (and their slogan is quite cool… when it absolutely must connect)
maybe a silex device can also help get around that crashplan problem that people had regarding network drives.
eg a reverse silex, to make it look like usb
(at the very least, it could be a new wwf wrestling move) the “reverse Silex”) 
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that silex device sounds interesting. (and their slogan is quite cool… when it absolutely must connect) :)[/quote]
I have had very good experience with their support and products. I’m on the third USB device server - it gets better every generation.