I just got a v2 firewire drobo, threw in 4 2tb hitachi deskstar drives. But the noise is ridiculous! When the drives are spinning up or just resting, they are perfectly quiet. But after I plugin my drobo on my 27″ iMac, it sounds like it’s writing tons of data between the drives, working them to death. This keeps up all day. And this happens every time my computer wakes up from sleeping, or if I turn on and plugin my drobo.

According to the activity monitor, the computer is not writing anything to the drives. Time Machine is not using the drobo. I thought it might be spotlight cataloging everything, but this happens EVERY TIME my machine wakes up or restarts.

According to drobo tech support everything is peachy. No problem whatsoever according to the Drobo Diagnostic log I sent them.

This is another issue I have with Data Robotics. The Drobo Diagnostic file that the drobo dashboard generates for you to send to their tech support, is encrypted, and data robotics refuses to send a copy of of the decrypted file to me. Wait a minute? They won't allow me to see how my own drobo is doing? Isn't that a violation of the Freedom of Information Act? Lawyers? It seems like a hospital denying a patient a copy of their medical records, after saying everything is A OK, when something is obviously wrong…

Anyway, anyone have any problems like this? Any suggestions/recommendations? Drobo tech support is useless, so hopefully someone brilliant comes up with a solution…

THANKS!

I just got a v2 firewire drobo, threw in 4 2tb hitachi deskstar drives. But the noise is ridiculous! When the drives are spinning up or just resting, they are perfectly quiet. But after I plugin my drobo on my 27″ iMac, it sounds like it’s writing tons of data between the drives, working them to death. This keeps up all day. And this happens every time my computer wakes up from sleeping, or if I turn on and plugin my drobo.

According to the activity monitor, the computer is not writing anything to the drives. Time Machine is not using the drobo. I thought it might be spotlight cataloging everything, but this happens EVERY TIME my machine wakes up or restarts.

According to drobo tech support everything is peachy. No problem whatsoever according to the Drobo Diagnostic log I sent them.

This is another issue I have with Data Robotics. The Drobo Diagnostic file that the drobo dashboard generates for you to send to their tech support, is encrypted, and data robotics refuses to send a copy of of the decrypted file to me. Wait a minute? They won't allow me to see how my own drobo is doing? Isn't that a violation of the Freedom of Information Act? Lawyers? It seems like a hospital denying a patient a copy of their medical records, after saying everything is A OK, when something is obviously wrong…

Anyway, anyone have any problems like this? Any suggestions/recommendations? Drobo tech support is useless, so hopefully someone brilliant comes up with a solution…

THANKS!