Drobo Questions

[spacepower7]

I was wondering if it is possible to move a Drobo back and forth between several Macs? Or are there preferences or something in Drobo Dashboard that keeps important info, and then make this not an option?

Also, am I right to assume that when you put your first couple drives in a Drobo, that they have to be blank/empty and that they have to be formatted by the Drobo software? Or could you put 2 x 1/2full 1TB drives and one blank 1 TB drive in?

Thanks in advance.

Macsales.com (OWC) has some good rebates on Drobo today. I was thinking of getting one.

 

[Alrescha]

I was wondering if it is possible to move a Drobo back and forth between several Macs? Or are there preferences or something in Drobo Dashboard that keeps important info, and then make this not an option?

The Drobo appears to Mac OS X as a big disk drive. You don't even have to have Drobo Dashboard installed once everything is initialized and formatted.

Also, am I right to assume that when you put your first couple drives in a Drobo, that they have to be blank/empty and that they have to be formatted by the Drobo software? Or could you put 2 x 1/2full 1TB drives and one blank 1 TB drive in?

Any drives that you put into a Drobo will become blank/formatted when you put them in...

A.