When I removed one of the 3 TB drives I get the RED “data not protected”, the capacity goes down to 6.3 TB total 4TB used.
After letting it sit for 6 hrs, I expected that the data would be moved around and I would get protection again. I still have 4 green drives and 1 “add a drive”
The website says " Remove only one drive at a time while your Drobo device is powered on, giving your Drobo device the opportunity afterwards to rearrange your data into the safest configuration across the remaining hard drives."
If I recall correctly, data relayout on those devices takes about a day per terabyte (the 5N should be significantly faster); it stands to reason that you had about 1TB of data on that drive that now has to be reconstructed on the remaining drives, so give it until late tomorrow at least.
It’s not commonly known, but the networked Drobo’s run two operating systems. Linux is only there for file sharing and such (think of it as an integrated DroboShare and you’re not far off). The diskpack and BeyondRAID is managed by the same OS that runs their desktop units (I want to say it was vxWorks) on the other CPU core. You won’t see any activity on the Linux side when BeyondRAID is doing its thing.
Drobo dashboard still says “add drive” , Drobo cannot protect your data against hard drive failures… (etc).
I never saw it blink lights at all when I removed the drive. Instantly came up with the red “add drive” light… Before I removed the drive, all 5 bays were solid green.
It sounds like the Drobo thinks there isn’t enough space on the drive pack to start the relayout, so it’s asking for more capacity. This can sometimes happen if you’ve recently deleted a lot of data and the Drobo hasn’t had enough time to reclaim that space. Try a quick restart from Drobo Dashboard; if it still doesn’t start relayout, please contact our support desk at http://www.drobo.com/support/contact-support.php.
Nice… After over a day of waiting, a power cycle, tossing in a 320 gig drive, waiting 2 more days… I finally get the “rebuilding” lights and the dashboard says rebuilding… 60 hours to go, but at least it is finally doing something… Boy the DroboFS does take its time to do anything…Thankfully the 5N is much faster…
Конец сходился с началом. Они сколько угодно могут искать Артура Стюарта, но пока они не узнают его в лицо, как узнают друг друга обыкновенные люди, они никогда не найдут мальчика".
And no message about rebuilding either…