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Reply to Added new HDD, but still have a orange light on July 27, 2008

Thanks SuiteB - You're a star

Reply to Added new HDD, but still have a orange light on July 27, 2008

It worked!! Just needed a reseat - i just hope the data stripped across the drives ok, who knows then the drive came loose? Would drobo be clever enough to know the stripping didnt complete...

Reply to 2 drobo's on 1 PC? on July 20, 2008

And i assume the same will happen if there is a 3rd and 4th drobo on one PC?

Reply to Seagate good, Samsung bad? on July 6, 2008

My god, that is such an obvious fix - lol cant believe i didn't think of that. ill give it a go tomorrow and report back. Many thanks

Reply to Seagate good, Samsung bad? on July 6, 2008

VLC As it supports ISO rips (VLC Played it fine before the Samsungs were added)

Reply to Seagate good, Samsung bad? on July 6, 2008

Every film blips a few seconds every time without fail - the data is fine as they all work fine when copied to the desktop and played from there. all HDD's are SATA2

Reply to Seagate good, Samsung bad? on July 6, 2008

Its been like it for a month, since i installed them

Reply to 2.7TB of avaliable Data, 350GB Free and im having big problems on June 11, 2008

Im back to everything bipping again, firmware update must have been a coincidence. Ive tested Drobo on 2 different PC's - its the same. i dont understand it

Reply to 2.7TB of avaliable Data, 350GB Free and im having big problems on May 30, 2008

anyone else? :)

Reply to 2.7TB of avaliable Data, 350GB Free and im having big problems on May 27, 2008

Thanks clever man Reading the features and fixes of the release, it didnt look like either of the things it has done to my drobo were listed. Im not complaining of course.... just curious! (but...

Reply to 2.7TB of avaliable Data, 350GB Free and im having big problems on May 26, 2008

Hey, this is odd I have just updated to the new firmware, and my blipping has stopped! also, my free space has gone from 800GB to 1.01TB Why would either of these things happen?

Reply to 2.7TB of avaliable Data, 350GB Free and im having big problems on May 15, 2008

latest: Dear Mark Nicholls, There are no hard drive read or write errors being logged by the Drobo. The pausing problem you are experiencing when the Drobo gets near full has recently surfaced. A fix...

Reply to 2.7TB of avaliable Data, 350GB Free and im having big problems on May 15, 2008

After sending drobo my log file, this is what they say: Your drives appear to be fine, the Drobo will flash the bay light red next to a drive that is having a problem. is...

Reply to 2.7TB of avaliable Data, 350GB Free and im having big problems on May 14, 2008

can i create this log file or is this something that drobo do remotley?

Reply to 2.7TB of avaliable Data, 350GB Free and im having big problems on May 14, 2008

as above - this is what i have - is this good or bad?

Reply to 2.7TB of avaliable Data, 350GB Free and im having big problems on May 14, 2008

I have: 2 X WD WD10EACS - 00ZJB0 2 X Seagate Barracuda 9bx158-303 (it went into standby and then i removed power)

Reply to 2.7TB of avaliable Data, 350GB Free and im having big problems on May 13, 2008

Is there a way i can find out what HDD's are in drobo or shall i just pull out a drive and check? will i be able to reinsert the drive straight away if i...

Reply to 2.7TB of avaliable Data, 350GB Free and im having big problems on May 13, 2008

From drobo "support" Dear Mark Nicholls, Instead of refusing to copy files when its capacity is almost full, Drobo instead enters "slow down" mode to alert you to check the blue utilization meter. If Drobo...

Reply to 2.7TB of avaliable Data, 350GB Free and im having big problems on May 12, 2008

not yet, i prefer to start on the forums to see if anyone else has had similar problems

Reply to 2.7TB of avaliable Data, 350GB Free and im having big problems on May 12, 2008

I now have 420GB of unused data which has bought all lights back to yellow and eveyrthing is working well again This is bad from drobo - i now have 420GB of unusable HDD space....

Reply to 2.7TB of avaliable Data, 350GB Free and im having big problems on May 12, 2008

so at 85% utilization, performance degrades badly? very badly, data will not stream from it well enough to watch a full ripped DVD?

Reply to Droboshare - way to slow on April 5, 2008

do i just have to accept that the speed is better but will never hit 20-22MPBS on droboshare?

Reply to Droboshare - way to slow on April 4, 2008

i installed it on all 3 vista pc's in the house - took 30 mins each. much better improvement with the status of the transfer, it gives an ETA in seconds rather than minutes!

Reply to Droboshare - way to slow on April 4, 2008

yes, i have installed SP1 and after a reboot it is now copying at 10MBPS which is a massive improvement, still not the 20 i would lilke wireless has gone down to 2MBPS from 15...

Reply to Droboshare - way to slow on April 4, 2008

so wirelessley: When drobo connected to droboshare - between 500kbps-3MBPS When connected via USB to another PC set up as a shared folder - 15MBPS

Reply to Droboshare - way to slow on April 4, 2008

Ive been thinking, it cant be the o/s as when the Drobo is connected direct to my PC via USB it copys @ 20MBPS, and when i set drobo as a share, my laptop (PRE-N)...

Reply to Droboshare - way to slow on April 4, 2008

From windows XP laptop (only has a 100MB LAN port, not gigabit) copied a 700MB file in 3 minutes which is 3.8MB a second - i have no idea how slow/fast 100MB LAN is -...

Reply to Droboshare - way to slow on April 3, 2008

no should i?

Reply to Droboshare - way to slow on April 3, 2008

Vista

Reply to Droboshare - way to slow on April 3, 2008

please help! the speed is stupid!

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