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Adding, Removing, and Replacing
Hard Drives
When you add hard drives to your Drobo, each individual hard drive becomes
part of a large pool of storage where data is spread out across all of the hard
drives in Drobo. As you add or replace hard drives to increase capacity, each
new hard drive becomes identified as part of the storage pool. Drobo will keep
track of which hard drives are parts of this pool of storage.
When removing or replacing hard drives, make sure you remove or replace them
one at a time. If you remove or replace too many hard drives at once, Drobo will
light all 4 data bay indicators with red lights and request that you reinsert the last
drive removed.
Note: To safely remove all hard drives at one time from Drobo, first Eject Drobo.
You can do this by dragging the Drobo icon on your desktop to the Trash, using
the Mac OS Safe Eject Utility or clicking on the Standby button on the Tools Tab
of the Advanced Control Panel.
Once Drobo is in Standby, all lights will turn off except for the power indicator,
which will turn orange. You may now safely remove all of the hard drives from
your Drobo.
Warning: Failure to properly put Drobo into Standby before removing a set of
drives from your Drobo can cause loss of data.
Note: In the event that Drobo is almost full and all drives in Drobo are the same
capacity, you will need to replace two drives in order to increase the overall
amount of protected capacity. Replacing just one drive will not increase your
overall protected capacity. Remember to replace one drive at a time and allow
relay-out to complete before removing another drive.
Warning: Adding a hard drive to Drobo will erase all data on the new hard drive.
Existing drives in Drobo will not lose their data.
Warning: Never remove more than one hard drive at a time so that your Drobo
has an opportunity to relay-out your data into the safest configuration across the
remaining hard drives. If you want to remove all hard drives from your Drobo, first
put Drobo into Standby. You can do this by dragging the Drobo icon from your
desktop to the Trash, using the Mac OS Safe Eject Utility, or by clicking on the
Standby button in the Tools Tab of the Advanced Control Panel.
The standby operation should take only a few seconds. Once Drobo is in standby
mode, all lights will turn off except for the power indicator, which will turn orange.
Only then can you safely remove the set of hard drives from Drobo.
Related Topics
Adding New Capacity to My Drobo