I have recently bought a Drobo 5D to replace a load of external Lacie hard drives (the hard drives were subsequently removed from their enclosures and put into the Drobo).
The Drobo currently has 5x 2TB drives, all working great.
My question is, if I removed all 5 drives, and then stored them off-site, would they work fine once plugged back in to the Drobo? Even if a 2nd set of 5 drives were used in the same Drobo?
Effectively I want to back up all my data to two sets of hard drives, using a single Drobo. Would they take ages to rebuild if I start swapping full sets of hard drives in and out?
I realise this issue can be sorted by buying a 2nd Drobo and mirroring them, but at this stage it's too expensive (I plan to do so in the future though).
Thanks!