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According to <a href="http://www.drobospace.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=147888&page=2" rel="ugc">http://www.drobospace.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=147888&page=2</a>&nbsp;there's no way to get at that space unless you reinitialize it which means copy all the data off to another device first.
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According to http://www.drobospace.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=147888&page=2 [http://www.drobospace.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=147888&page=2] there's no way to get at that space unless you reinitialize it which means copy all the data off to another device first.

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Any suggestions on where to copy 15TB in the meantime? I don't have another drobo laying around haha.
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Any suggestions on where to copy 15TB in the meantime? I don't have another drobo laying around haha.

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I have a Drobo 5N with 5 8TB drives in it. We are wedding photographers so we use a lot of space! However, I just recently upgraded all of our drives from 5TB drives to 8TB drives of the same kind. And now my capacity is as follows:<br />
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Used Space: 15.72 TB<br />
Free Space: 277.41 <b>GB</b><br />
Unallocated Space: 13.03 TB<br />
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How do I get my unallocated space to become free space?!<br />
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I have a Drobo 5N with 5 8TB drives in it. We are wedding photographers so we use a lot of space! However, I just recently upgraded all of our drives from 5TB drives to 8TB drives of the same kind. And now my capacity is as follows:

Used Space: 15.72 TB
Free Space: 277.41 GB
Unallocated Space: 13.03 TB

How do I get my unallocated space to become free space?!

Drobo Unallocated Space

Storage devices include any device used for storing and retrieving digital information. Hard disk drives (HDDs) use one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. The primary competing technology for secondary storage is flash memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), but HDDs remain the dominant medium for secondary storage due to advantages in price per bit and per-device recording capacity. CD-RW (Compact Disc-ReWritable) is a digital optical disc storage format that allows information to be stored outside the mechanical HDD.