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This Drobo (low-level) formats damn fast, what takes it "a while" (read '48 hours') is upsizing itself when you remove a disk and insert a bigger one. During this period it claims to be not protecting your data, which is a bit scary, but I wonder why, if you have dual disk redundacy onswitched, which I do, it can't rebuild its RADI6eyness while maintaining its RADI5eyness until it's finished. Possibly it is and the flashing warning is just a generic 'things are not right' message, but I'm not about to pull out a drive to find out.
I got it (since you ask) because the Thecus 5400 I have has a tendency to just lose disks of a morning. No physical impact, nothing wrong with the disks, just they'd drop out of the RAID at random and it'd have to be rebuilt (also about 48 hours). Only a matter of time before enough dropped out at the same time and bye-bye data. Dodgy drive connectors? Who knows.
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