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I have been waiting for what seems like weeks for the final few gigs of my Drobo’s third Terabyte to fill up so that I could do a live expansion of the volume.  Well, tonight was finally the night.  I have been working on a video project that is one hundred gigs in size and while copying those files over to the Drobo, the “time to expand” indicator light came on.  Having purchased the Drobo with three Terabytes, I haven’t performed a live expansion.  I figure if all of my live data is either going to expand gracefully or crash and burn before my very eyes I should at least get a video and share the experience.   Without further delay, here are the results:

So, the Drobo expanded with ease.  I have been impressed with this product since the day I unboxed it and couldn’t recommend having one more.  I am currently streaming 600+ DVDs, 1000+ TV shows, and 12,000+ songs off the Drobo to three Macs and three Apple TVs, and have never experienced an availability or performance issue.  I have been fortunate not to have a drive failure so far, but with everything backed up at work, I am almost hopeful that I get to deal with one just to see if its as easy as tonight’s expansion.  I even got an e-mail from the Drobo letting me know that it had detected a new HDD.  All in all, you just can’t beat it.