scottelsdon

Hi there, I found this thread via a Google search for Drobo Failed Drives. Reading through the comments I might be able to shed soem light. I've been told that Drobos aren't that friendly to the WD green drive tech, the drives try to pin themselves down to save current etc, which the Drobo cant control. To get around that, set the Drobo to spin down drives after no activity for 15 mins, which is less than the Green drives settings. Seems to work for me and solved the same issue on a friends. On the failed drives front, does anyone know how the Drobo marks a drive as dead ? I had a failed 1.5 TB drive in my FS ( which I'm loving btw) and swapped it out. I ran a drive repair util on it, (Spinrite) then HDD Checker, which fixed the issues, and it works perfectly as an external, writing full and reading full without issues, yet the Drobo wont accept it back. I had thought that the unit remembered the drive fingerprint / serial, but I recently got a hold of a 4 bay USB Drobo, which also rejects this drive. So there must be a data entry somewhere on the drive header telling Drobos to reject. Just wondered if anyone else know of this and if so how to wipe it so I can use it once more ?