Where To Go Next; Using Best Practices; Keeping Your Software Up To Date; Checking For Software Updates Automatically - Drobo 5D Getting Started Manual

Where to Go Next

After you've set up your Drobo 5D, you're ready to store and back up data onto it. Next steps
include the following. Click on a topic to learn more.
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Implementing best practices
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Ensuring optimal performance by
Drobo device's firmware) up to date
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Knowing how to
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Using the Online User Guide
manage and use your Drobo device
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Using our knowledge base
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Registering your Drobo 5D
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Getting the support

Using Best Practices

Although your Drobo 5D provides redundancy and automatically protects your data against a
drive failure, it should only be one part of an overall, digital asset management strategy.
To better safeguard your valuable data, we strongly encourage you to review our guide on
best practices, which can be found at www.drobo.com/support/best_practices.
Our guide offers strategies to protect data beyond drive failures. Following best practices will help
maximize the safety of your data.

Keeping Your Software Up to Date

To ensure optimal performance, we highly recommend that you set your Drobo device to
automatically check for software updates. (You may have already done this during the initial
setup.) This feature keeps both Drobo Dashboard and your product's firmware current.
You can also install updates from www.drobo.com/support/updates. If you would like to install a
firmware update from the Drobo website, see
This section covers the following topics:

Checking for Software Updates Automatically

Checking for Software Updates Now
Manually Updating Firmware from the Website
Checking for Software Updates Automatically
The following steps keep your Drobo Dashboard and your Drobo device's firmware up to date
automatically.
1. If it's not already running, launch Drobo Dashboard from the host computer and select the
appropriate Drobo device on the All Drobos page.
2. Click Dashboard Preferences on the Navigation menu.
Drobo 5D Getting Started Guide
to maximize the safety of your data
keeping your software (Drobo Dashboard and your
safely shut down your Drobo device
and context-sensitive help
to answer almost any additional question
you may need
Manually Updating Firmware from the
to learn more about how to
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