I am in the process of setting up my 5N. I installed my Crutial 128Gb mSATA and then started it up. I managed to access it via Drobo dashboard. I then inserted the 3 Western Digital Red 3Tb Drives I bought today. Since then it has been stuck saying “Your device is starting up. This will only take a minute”. It has now been several hours and it is still stuck. The drives are all detected in Drobo Dashboard with their health reported as good, but when I click on the ‘Capacity’ or ‘Shares’ menu items, it says that Drobo does not detect any hard drives. Can anyone help?
From memory mine took about 20-30 minutes, which is a lot mroe than i expected but obviously not as long as yours
since you havent set it up yet i’d try power cycling or a reset
Hello, I’m in the same boat. I’ve installed the latest firmware, I have an msata 128gb plextor SSD, and 3 4tb wd green drives installed. The dashboard shows that the drives are installed and in “good” health, however all of the lights on the front of the Drobo are Red.
The msata drive states it is not activated, and the Drobo health status is listed as “Critical”.
I’m completely lost and don’t know what to do from here.
Hello, I’m in the same boat. I’ve installed the latest firmware, I have an msata 128gb plextor SSD, and 3 4tb wd green drives installed. The dashboard shows that the drives are installed and in “good” health, however all of the lights on the front of the Drobo are Red.
The msata drive states it is not activated, and the Drobo health status is listed as “Critical”.
I’m completely lost and don’t know what to do from here.