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If it had been that drive that went down in this same way IР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›m pretty sure I would not have been so easy going on the phone.

But what if this was your primary repository for something important? What if itР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s the one place you keep all of your work files, photos, music or something else thatР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s of great importance to you? I have a Drobo at home that I use as my primary holding tank for all digital video that I shoot of my twin boys, which is all tapeless media. It was only a clone of one of the edit rooms and could be rebuilt overnight by just re-running the backup (with fewer files selected this time). After a big sigh he admitted that it was nearly every day.Р В РІР‚СњР В РІР‚РЋor us, losing the drive was not a huge issue. While on my tech support call I asked the engineer how frequently he received calls about this particular problem. Wow! The drive system thatР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s touted as the safe way to store all of your most important files has one major flaw, and most people are not even aware of it! I was on the phone with Tech Support for about 20 minutes as we walked through the situation and finally he informed me that if I was sure that the drive had been filled beyond its capacity than there was nothing to do other than to start over and reformat the drives. You might think that since itР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s a space issue you can just replace one of the drives with a larger one and let it rebuild. It needs a small amount of itР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s own space to do this. In this case the Drobo volume gets so overloaded with files that it has no Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р РЋРЎв„ўwork spaceР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р РЋРЎС™ left to do itР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s own housekeeping to keep track of used and unused space, as well as file redundancy. It unmounted itself from the computer and no amount of restarting of the server and/or Drobo would bring it back. Because Retrospect thought there was 16TB of space, it just kept trying to pile the files onto the drive until the drobo finally crashed. We just finished a good long stretch of having projects back to back without time to offload the complete ones, so the Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р РЋРЎв„ўactive projectsР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р РЋРЎС™ folder started to grow beyond the size of the DroboР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s capacity. In doing this weР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›re protected against any failures and at most would only lose 3 hours of work (which could still be a lot, but better than 3 months of work). Every 3 hours our Retrospect server runs a script to clone all active projects to the drobo. ItР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s used as a backup drive for one of our edit suites and sits in a back room attached to a server. However, in our case we donР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›t often interact with the Drobo directly. ItР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s kind of hard to miss, and can actually get kind of annoying if you just try to ignore the warnings. YouР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›re interacting with the drive and if you start to get close to filling the Drobo it will start to warn you both through the lights on the drive as well as the Drobo Dashboard software. When youР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›re manually adding files to the drobo, this is not too big of a deal. This is true even if you have a single 250 gig drive in the drobo. Thus, every program you use also sees the drive as a 16TB volume.

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So if you format your drobo drive as a 16 TB drive, (the current maximum except for on the Drobo Pro which is 32 TB) the OS thinks that it has 16TB of storage available.

One of the ways that the Drobo is able to expand over time is by presenting the OS with a virtualized volume of its total achievable space. HereР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s what the main issue boils down to. I lost nearly 4 TB of files and there was nothing I could do to get them back. Overall IР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›ve had a great experience with the units and when I needed assistance their tech support was very helpful.Р В РІР‚СњР В РІР‚С›ll of that being said, there is a dirty little secret that they donР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›t warn you about and if youР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›re not careful you can have your Drobo crash beyond recovery, which is what happened to me this past week. I have 2 of them (an original USB and a newer FW version) and plan to purchase more DroboР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s in the not too distant future. Like weР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›ve pointed out many times, weР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›re also learning here at SuiteTake so thanks for the feedback.Р В РІР‚СњР вЂ™Р’В«efore I start, let me just say that I am a Drobo fan. You can find more information on the iPartition website, as well as from Drobo. In theory it was a great idea, but apparently this too will cause problems. If you try to resize a partition as outlined in this post, you WILL LOSE YOUR DATA. In my testing, I performed the resizing operation on a newly formatted drive that didnР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›t have any data (since I had just lost all of my data that was on the drobo). IMPORTANT NOTE: This post was updated on Wednesday Novemwith new information regarding resizing partitions on the Drobo using iPartition.Р В РІР‚СњР В РІР‚С›s brought to my attention by reader Bradley Davidson (thanks Bradley), iPartition does not actually support the method that I mentioned, and neither does drobo directly.

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