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It currently has one 4TB drive and three 3TB drives. Have you ever had an issue with volume auto-growth when you add capacity to the Drobo? Article Id: AA-00909 Last updated date: 11-30-2017. Display results with all search words % End of search results. Click here for information on support for larger capacity drives (e.g. Matching Drives to Your Application Before deciding on which drive to choose, it is important to understand which drive types are best for your application. * In order to achieve maximum volume of 64TB, review knowledge base articles "Drobo 5N: 64TBVolumeSupport" or "Drobo 5D/5Dt/Gen3/Mini: 64TBVolume Support" ** Second 128TB volume created .
The table below shows which drive types are best suited by usage.
The revolutionary Drobo FS was designed with one purpose in mind: to deliver the best file ... Drobo FS holds up to five drives allowing you to effortlessly grow your storage to meet your data capacity needs. Below, is a table that lists current product line with maximum storage, maximum volume size and largest drive tested in the Drobo. Krakmup wrote: I use several of the DROBO B800i units, and yes, there is a volume size limit: Using 64 kB clusters, the maximum Windows XP NTFS volume size is 256 TBs minus 64 KBs. Drobo's spec sheet mentions nothing about the maximum drive size that it supports. Maximum drive/volume size in 2nd Gen 4-Bay Drobo? 15TB, 16TB).. Then two sentences later it says it will support greater than 2TB drives in the future (WAT?? Drobo: Adding drive capacity. Display results with all search words Drive Type “2.5” DAS Optimized DAS Optimized NAS Optimized Enterprise SATA Enterprise/NL1 SAS mSATA SSDs Consumer SSDs Enterprise […] Using the default cluster size of 4 kB, the maximum NTFS volume size is 16 TB minus 4 kB. The wiki says it supports 5x3TB drives for a max capacity of 10.89TB. If getting the fastest performance possible is your thing, you can also load up every drive bay with SSDs.
Actual disk sizes can vary between vendors, and values calculated may differ slightly from actual results. ). Is this still true? To keep capacity of your Drobo 5N2 at a maximum, the Drobo Accelerator Bay accepts an industry-standard mSATA SSD, leaving all five 3.5” drives bays available for high-capacity HDDs. I've read in the past that this model can't handle drives larger than 4TB. I have a four-bay, 2nd-generation (USB 2.0/FW800) Drobo. I've seen a data sheet, but that's 2.5 years old. This tool is for approximating the space utilization with various mixed disk configurations. Overview When your Drobo is low on available disk space, you can easily increase storage either by inserting a new drive in an empty bay or by replacing a smaller capacity drive with a larger one.