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I have a Drobo (5D) with a drive that's about to go bad. I have a second Drobo and wanted to upgrade the second Drobo, so I removed a drive from the second drobo so I could install it in the drobo with the bad drive. However, even though I'm not trying to preserve the drive coming from another drobo, I get the message, &quot;Drobo has detected at least one drive from another drobo disk pack&quot; and I can't proceed (I get all red blinking lights). What should I do differently? Is there a way I can prep the drive I'm putting in the drobo so it doesn't know it came from another disk pack?
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I have a Drobo (5D) with a drive that's about to go bad. I have a second Drobo and wanted to upgrade the second Drobo, so I removed a drive from the second drobo so I could install it in the drobo with the bad drive. However, even though I'm not trying to preserve the drive coming from another drobo, I get the message, "Drobo has detected at least one drive from another drobo disk pack" and I can't proceed (I get all red blinking lights). What should I do differently? Is there a way I can prep the drive I'm putting in the drobo so it doesn't know it came from another disk pack?

Move one drive between drobos for upgrading

disk management

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.