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Big Sur w/ Drobo (Thunderbolt) - NOT Working
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Update... 1 week later Drobo Dashboard version 3.5.2 (115658)...
Still does NOT WORK... are they expecting us to do some testing before releasing the update...? Seriously what's going on there, everyone is stuck with this and they give us another useless update...?
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Still does NOT WORK... are they expecting us to do some testing before releasing the update...? Seriously what's going on there, everyone is stuck with this and they give us another useless update...?
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Is this totally down to Drobo or is there a wider issue? In addition to my USB Drobo causing instability and unmounting periodically I have a USB card reader that is also disappearing from finder but then causes an unmount before disconnecting warning if unplugged.
3.5.2 fixed the issue for a fair number of people, so hopefully macOS 11.1 will fix it for you when it drops as many on the Beta program said the issue was resolved when they updated (this was before 3.5.2 became available).
Ok guys,
I had some kind of breakthrough... why this did not happen before, I am not sure but anyway I cut it short, here we go.
I tried to open the Drobo dashboard while Drobo was NOT up.
The system then returned the following message:
" Warning
Drobo system extension has been blocked by MacOS. Please go to "System Preferences >> Security & Privacy >> General" pane and allow the extension to be loaded. "
I did exactly this then boot up the Drobo and the icon did appear on the desktop... finally...!!!
So this is my take on this (I might be wrong...):
It looks like in OS Big Sur there are a few more OS security layouts which were stopping the Drobo extension to load as mentioned in the message.
But considering that I did install the new version of dashboard more than 24 hours ago and it did not work then, I never got to the message, I suspect that It might depend on what is loaded at the same time on my MAC PRO.
Note that I am not running any anti virus software, I probably will now that the extension managed to go through the system.
So I suspect results may vary from one system to another.
I keep testing and see if I have more issues. I will document them.
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I had some kind of breakthrough... why this did not happen before, I am not sure but anyway I cut it short, here we go.
I tried to open the Drobo dashboard while Drobo was NOT up.
The system then returned the following message:
" Warning
Drobo system extension has been blocked by MacOS. Please go to "System Preferences >> Security & Privacy >> General" pane and allow the extension to be loaded. "
I did exactly this then boot up the Drobo and the icon did appear on the desktop... finally...!!!
So this is my take on this (I might be wrong...):
It looks like in OS Big Sur there are a few more OS security layouts which were stopping the Drobo extension to load as mentioned in the message.
But considering that I did install the new version of dashboard more than 24 hours ago and it did not work then, I never got to the message, I suspect that It might depend on what is loaded at the same time on my MAC PRO.
Note that I am not running any anti virus software, I probably will now that the extension managed to go through the system.
So I suspect results may vary from one system to another.
I keep testing and see if I have more issues. I will document them.
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To follow what I was saying on my previous post. I am testing this connection and IT IS NOT STABLE...
I mean, if you open Lightroom 6 for instance, the thunderbolt connection drop out after a few minutes and the drive disappear from the desktop, no time to download pictures from a camera...😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😵
The Drobo stop completely a few minutes after disconnecting from my MACPRO (No light, like a after a shutdown).
I say we are 50 % there; so to be positive, there is progress but it is not ready just yet.
Hope it helps.
Cheers.
I mean, if you open Lightroom 6 for instance, the thunderbolt connection drop out after a few minutes and the drive disappear from the desktop, no time to download pictures from a camera...😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😵
The Drobo stop completely a few minutes after disconnecting from my MACPRO (No light, like a after a shutdown).
I say we are 50 % there; so to be positive, there is progress but it is not ready just yet.
Hope it helps.
Cheers.
Terramaster make USB3/TB3 DAS and NAS.
I have a Terramaster D5 - TB3.
They have just fixed the Big Sur TB issue with their latest driver.
D5 thunderbolt 3
Lightning-Fast RAID 0/1/5/10/SINGLE<br />5-Bay Professional-Grade RAID Storage<br />for Video Editing and Photographe(Hard Drive is not included)
Good to hear. Did you update your Drobo Dashboard prior?
The Drobo Dashboard update fixed the issue for me under 11.01 so I am a bit hesitant to upgrade to 11.1 incase it breaks something in the Drobo Dashboard, but I am hoping that the DD update might have just pushed whatever was done in 11.1 to fix it forward to 11.01.
The Drobo Dashboard update fixed the issue for me under 11.01 so I am a bit hesitant to upgrade to 11.1 incase it breaks something in the Drobo Dashboard, but I am hoping that the DD update might have just pushed whatever was done in 11.1 to fix it forward to 11.01.
I had tried the Drobo Dashboard update some time back, including deleting and fresh install but without success. I was therefore already at the latest version before updating to MacOS 11.1.
How are TerraMasters? I read the build quality is pretty shoddy.Terramaster make USB3/TB3 DAS and NAS.
I have a Terramaster D5 - TB3.
They have just fixed the Big Sur TB issue with their latest driver.
D5 thunderbolt 3
Lightning-Fast RAID 0/1/5/10/SINGLE<br />5-Bay Professional-Grade RAID Storage<br />for Video Editing and Photographe(Hard Drive is not included)www.terra-master.com
My D5 TB3 seems ok, not cheap price, only items that are plastic are drive carriers, fans pretty quiet. Support seems ok, they announced a Big Sur fix pretty quick.
I shied from DROBO as I got burnt when Dataconnected Transporter stopped supporting SOHO users, I believe the CEO was/is at DROBO now.
Other World Computing's ThunderBay line can work in JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks) which would require no additional software. They also support software-controlled RAID via SoftRAID. This will probably be where I go should my Drobo 5D eventually fail.
I spoke too soon (again!). Had been working under 11.1 but last night started the old freezing Finder issue as soon as I try to move or copy files to it 🤬. Still no reply from Drobo support.Updated to 11.1 and Drobo is still working.
What a great solution! Just reading up on this and it looks like it would replace Drobo, faster, cheaper, non-proprietary. I can't see any downsides (aside from mixing matching different sizes but that's minor)
This is like the Drobo Capacity calculator https://www.softraid.com/raid/which-raid/
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Hate to necro a thread, but has anyone had any success reformatting their dedicated Time Machine partition on their Drobo as APFS? There's talk that it's much faster in BS 11.1 and 11.2 over 11.0.1..