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How much free space as a percentage of total space do you have. The alert can be customized and changed from the default 20% remaining &nbsp;to say 10% remaining.
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How much free space as a percentage of total space do you have. The alert can be customized and changed from the default 20% remaining  to say 10% remaining.

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total capacity 9.81TB and that's what the Drobo Dashboard shows. &nbsp;we are actually only using approximately 2TB.
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total capacity 9.81TB and that's what the Drobo Dashboard shows.  we are actually only using approximately 2TB.

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How much free space does Drobo Dashboard show for the drive? &nbsp;I would never trust Windows Explorer's reporting of free space, as I have found it to be quite inaccurate most of the time. &nbsp;For instance, we have an older Drobo that has 4x 2TB hard drives. &nbsp;Windows Explorer reports that there is ~3.5TB free space, but Drobo Dashboard reports ~921GB free. &nbsp;The reason is that Drobo uses BeyondRaid to manage the raid-like storage protection.<br>Drobo uses one of the disks for data protection, so it is not actually available for Windows to use, even though Windows Explorer will show it as available.
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How much free space does Drobo Dashboard show for the drive?  I would never trust Windows Explorer's reporting of free space, as I have found it to be quite inaccurate most of the time.  For instance, we have an older Drobo that has 4x 2TB hard drives.  Windows Explorer reports that there is ~3.5TB free space, but Drobo Dashboard reports ~921GB free.  The reason is that Drobo uses BeyondRaid to manage the raid-like storage protection.
Drobo uses one of the disks for data protection, so it is not actually available for Windows to use, even though Windows Explorer will show it as available.

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I receive email notifications that my drobo is full, &nbsp;however when I look at it through windows explorer it looks fine.
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I receive email notifications that my drobo is full,  however when I look at it through windows explorer it looks fine.

Drobo 5N, storage problem.

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Storage

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