Where is my drobo serial number

But after I did this drobo began the process of re "protecting my data. I had an estimated time of recovery of about 32 hours. I love my drobos by the way and have been very happy with the job they do storing my photos. So this morning I got up as I always do and went to upload some photos to flickr my to be uploaded photos are kept on this drobo. It looks like the drobo is still in the process of recovering it says 22 hours remaining though and I feel like it should be further along as it's been about 16 hours already so I don't want to try and reboot it or anything -- but I can't access any of my photos on this unit which is worrying me a little bit this morning.

So the first place that I like to try to go to start troubleshooting things like this is in community help forums. I often find that simple searches in community forums can often help you find the answers that you are looking for. Basically what I want to know is this. If I reboot my drobo during the recovery process because I think it is stuck and has hanged somehow will I risk losing data. The problem with drobo's community forum though is that you can't read it without first registering with the site by giving them your email address and clicking on a confirmation email back from them.

Personally I hate those kind of policies. Half the time the confirmation email ends up in your spam folder, sometimes you never get it, other times it takes an hour to get a simple email confirm. But because I need the help I went through that registration process. It asked me for my flickr ID which I thought was kind of cool and I put in thomashawk but got an error saying that they didn't recognize my flickr ID.

Oh well. So I'm all ready to finally access the support forums but when I try to go into them I get still another screen denying me access.

Are you kidding me? Why in God's name should I be required to enter a serial number in order to access a help forum? That's about the lamest thing I've ever seen. What, are they worried that people that don't really own drobos are going to troll the forums talking about how to fix drobos? I can think of no reason why I would need to enter a serial number in order to access these forums.

So that's were I am now. I crawled under my desk to try to see if I could ready the serial number anywhere on the back of my drobo but I can't. Safely shut down your Drobo device. Remove the hard drives from the Drobo device. It is critical to safely shut your device down and remove the drives before tilting, tipping, or disturbing your unit.

Once your product is safely shut down, look for its Serial Number and Part Number on the bottom of the unit. The Serial Number is 12 characters in length and starts with the letters ' TD '. The Part Number is 11 characters in length and starts with the number ' 9 '. Article Id: AA Last updated date: