08-04-2023, 02:00 PM
Hello Ty! Thank you for reaching out, and we appreciate your support! Regarding repurposing your old DROBO chassis and HDDs, unfortunately, it is not possible to turn an old DROBO (5n, 5D, etc.) into a simple "external drive enclosure" or a third-party RAID capable enclosure by just clearing the DROBO software. DROBO does not provide direct access to the HDDs without their proprietary software. If you wish to use the HDDs in a different RAID-capable external drive enclosure, you would need to consider other options like TerraMaster or OWC drive enclosures.