Drobo Roboticsl User Manual page 8

I. Introduction ........................................................................................ 1
II. Getting started ................................................................................... 3
Three easy steps ........................................................................................ 3
Selecting hard drives .................................................................................. 3
Choosing capacity ................................................................................... 4
A note about drive capacity .................................................................... 4
Keeping your product up-to-date .............................................................. 4
Best Practices ............................................................................................. 4
III. Drobo Dashboard Overview ............................................................... 5
Drobo Dashboard basics ............................................................................ 5
The main page ......................................................................................... 5
Advanced Controls: Data tab .................................................................. 6
Advanced Controls: Tools tab ................................................................. 6
Additional features ................................................................................. 6
Keeping Drobo Dashboard up-to-date .................................................... 7
IV. Drobo Setup ........................................................................................ 8
Inserting drives into Drobo ........................................................................ 8
Connect Drobo to your computer .............................................................. 8
USB 2.0 .................................................................................................. 10
FireWire 800 (2
eSATA (Drobo S) .................................................................................... 10
Connect power ......................................................................................... 10
Connect your 1
DroboShare .............................................................................................. 11
Initialize your Drobo ................................................................................ 11
Picking a file system and volume size ................................................... 11
Formatting for PC using Drobo Dashboard ........................................... 12
Formatting for Mac using Drobo Dashboard ........................................ 14
Formatting with DroboShare using Drobo Dashboard ......................... 15
Drobo Lights ............................................................................................. 15
Using Drobo Dashboard with your Drobo ................................................ 16
Advanced Controls: Data tab ................................................................ 17
Advanced Controls: Tools tab ............................................................... 17
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Generation Drobo and Drobo S) ............................... 10
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and 2 Generation (only) Drobo to a network using