Totally agree - I use mine as just another tertiary backup, so not a huge loss if I eventually lose access to it. But I wanna keep her running as long as I can (might as well) Really just sharing my experience in case others want to do any OS upgrades, etc. on their macs in relation to Drobo units.
I thought that might be the case. But I hate it when people lose their files, photos, memories, etc. when a word from someone might have prevented it.
Wow, great to see you still getting some value from your Drobo so many years later. I’ve passed along my 5D3 to a friend who uses it to store video and media files that he doesn’t care about.
He is a Windows user, so it works just fine for him.
Personally I replaced my Drobo with 4 x Thunderbolt 4 Enclosures from Satechi with high speed SSD MVME cards. One is setup with a MacOS RAID 1 Mirrow and the other two just swinging in the wind. Works wonderfully well for what I need.
And don’t forget to backup important data. Time Machine and Backblaze are my go-to’s.
When my poor Drobo dies, I will need another JBOD solution in order to backup a portion of my ever increasing media server hosted on Synology. It sucks using multiple individual external harddrives to backup this content , so Drobo is great for this purpose until it dies on me. I even have a spare Drobo power supply in case that dies on me again.