Drobo FS - English

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 ............................................................................................. 5
III. Drobo FS Setup ................................................................................... 6
Install Drobo Dashboard ............................................................................ 6
Inserting drives into Drobo FS .................................................................... 6
Connect Drobo FS to your network ........................................................... 7
Ethernet .................................................................................................. 7
Connect power ........................................................................................... 7
Initialize your Drobo FS .............................................................................. 7
Drobo FS Lights .......................................................................................... 8
IV. Using Drobo Dashboard with your Drobo FS ..................................... 9
Drobo Dashboard basics ............................................................................ 9
The main page ......................................................................................... 9
Advanced Controls: Data tab ................................................................ 10
Advanced Controls: Tools tab ............................................................... 11
Drobo FS Settings ..................................................................................... 11
General Tab ........................................................................................... 12
Network Tab .......................................................................................... 13
Admin Tab ............................................................................................. 14
Shares Tab ............................................................................................. 15
Alerts Tab .............................................................................................. 16
Additional features .................................................................................. 16
DroboCopy ............................................................................................ 17
Keeping Drobo Dashboard up-to-date .................................................. 17
Saving power ......................................................................................... 17