- #DROBO DASHBOARD WINDOWS NOT SEEING DRIVE DRIVERS#
- #DROBO DASHBOARD WINDOWS NOT SEEING DRIVE PATCH#
- #DROBO DASHBOARD WINDOWS NOT SEEING DRIVE SOFTWARE#
Sure, macOS Catalina is still a steaming pile of happenstance and misadventure, but at least I can patch it again. (As Leonard Cohen once sang, We are ugly, but we have the music.) That being said, I can put up with ugly if it works. (Until I worked out what was going on, that left me with a few heart-flutters.) Oh, and the interface is a little … ugly: SoftRAID Interface The only annoyance I have with the new solution is that OWC’s SoftRAID XT front-end interface has a terrifying quirk the first time you launch it where it’ll briefly report your storage is either offline, or in degraded mode, or both – until it connects to the back-end daemon and confirms the actual status.
#DROBO DASHBOARD WINDOWS NOT SEEING DRIVE SOFTWARE#
Yes, I had to unexpectedly buy a new DAS storage system, but unlike Drobo, the software associated with it doesn’t cause system instability. The system couldn’t be repaired I literally had to boot into recovery mode and completely wipe the OS and start again.Ī month later and I’m finding that with the Drobo software removed, all those other problems have disappeared as well. In fact, the system wouldn’t even come up.
#DROBO DASHBOARD WINDOWS NOT SEEING DRIVE DRIVERS#
Despite Catalina warning on every reboot that Drobo’s software probably wouldn’t work with a future macOS, Drobo had seemingly been somewhat silent on the matter.īut when I installed the Drobo drivers on my new desktop and rebooted … everything fell apart. Now admittedly, I had been getting a bit annoyed with Drobo. Everything went swimmingly until I was ready to transfer the Drobo storage across from the old system to the new. I’ll admit, I blamed a lot on Catalina, which is perhaps the most unreliable operating system I’ve used since SunOS 5.4.īecause of all those challenges, I figured when I transitioned to a new desktop recently I’d ditch the existing user profile that I had been faithfully transferring from computer to computer since 2004. Honestly, it was like playing Russian Roulette. OS upgrades were a nightmare of will-it-work-or-will-it-hang? Even standard OS patching would result in massive challenges where it might be fifteen minutes or more from the point of a startup chime before anything appeared on the screen. You see, I’ve been having increasing stability issues on my macOS desktop at home – a reboot might complete successfully or fail on shutdown.
Of these, I’ve had 3: a USB-2 4-drive model, a USB-3 5-drive model, and a USB-3 4-drive model.Īnd this week, I retired the two USB-3 systems. So for that local-access storage, I tended to use Drobo DAS units. And don’t even get me started on just how utterly abysmal TimeMachine is when you try to work on a SparseVolume presented by a remote server. Some things don’t play well with network-attached storage in the consumer market – take Apple’s iTunes/TV apps, for instance. In fact, after seven years of operation I finally replaced the first round of drives in my Synology 1513+ a while ago, since I was getting concerned with their age.īut I don’t only use NAS. A bit over seven years ago I caved and bought into the home-NAS game. The FARR Model: Fault Tolerance, Availability, Redundancy, RecoverabilityĪs a data protection professional, I tend to take data protection seriously even with my home equipment. The FARR model of data protection starts with fault tolerance – a fundamental requirement to provide a guarantee of data integrity and recoverability.
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