Trusting dumb utilities can lead to wasted time chasing while putting worse at risk.Īnyway - never been a drobo fan. Was a month after blue screens of death snd other weird behavior that the seagate utility said the drive was failing. Not just Drobo - similar story on SEagate utility that PC users can install. isn't veru smart and neither are solutions that say all is well in the face of failure. The Apple Genius suggested an os corruption possibility and offered nuke and pave fwiw.Īnyway - S.M.A.R.T. Asked our team member to install SoftRAID on his Mac (it automatically monitors all drives - not limited to just softraid volumes) and within 30 seconds popped up warning of imminent drive failure predicted and still the utilities said all was well. ![]() We are going to be posting a blog where Apple diagnostics at home, at the Apple Store, and SMART all said an 18 month old iMac's HDD was fine / but the issue sure sounded like dying drive. Oh - and the drive health monitoring built into softraid, which includes email notification, far more intelligent. Our Thunderbay 4 and Thunderbay 4 mini rock it Softraid 5 - total independence from proprietary hardware and higher performance too / RAID 5 speeds up to sustained 1GB/s with 4 SSDs - AJA I didn't think DU could test SMART status on an external drive. Took the Drobo offline and did SMART tests on each of the drives with SMART Utility via FireWire adapter. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.īy believing all possible evil of evil men. ![]() I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters. Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence. Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for. There’s trouble - it's time to play the sound of my people. My Gen 3 Drobo is much faster at rebuilding, but I don't remember how long it took with what drive. I swapped out a 3T drive to give my Gen 2 10T (4x4T) storage and it took somewhere around 80hrs to rebuild. I've got a Gen 3 and a Gen 3 Drobo, and no problems yet.
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