BurningMan
@burningman
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Topics: 3 / Replies: 30
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RE: Performance of encrypted APFS RAID5 fixed?

@softraid-support Thanks for hint regarding the stripe size. Are you numbers similar to SoftRAID 7 or have they improved by upgrading to SoftRAID8?

2 days ago
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RE: Performance of encrypted APFS RAID5 fixed?

I assume this also applies to APFS/RAID issue with SSDs as described here? (Write speed 380mb/s, read 512mb/s):

6 days ago
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RE: Error 128 when creating RAID4 on SoftRAID Pro 7.6 (CFBundleExecutable property, executable can't be found)

According to this, the performance impact should be much less when using APFS encryption, ranging from a few percent up to 20%. A performance drop of ...

6 months ago
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RE: Error 128 when creating RAID4 on SoftRAID Pro 7.6 (CFBundleExecutable property, executable can't be found)

@softraid-support Just to clarify, the drop from 2656 MB/s to 512 MB/s in read speeds is expected when using APFS encryption with two SSD only encl...

6 months ago
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RE: Slow encryption

I can confirm that enabling APFS encryption severely impacts SSD performance in M1/SoftRAID configurations, reading speed drops from 2600MB/s to 500MB...

6 months ago
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RE: Error 128 when creating RAID4 on SoftRAID Pro 7.6 (CFBundleExecutable property, executable can't be found)

Two ThunderBay 4 Mini enclosures, 4x Samsung SSD 870 QVO 8TB in each, RAID4: APFS (no encryption) APFS (encrypted) Switching RAID4 to RAID5 ...

6 months ago
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RE: Error 128 when creating RAID4 on SoftRAID Pro 7.6 (CFBundleExecutable property, executable can't be found)

Speed is ~1GB/s write and ~2.5GBs write, but drops to 300MB/s and 500MB/s once I enable APFS encryption. This is worse than the performance in my prev...

6 months ago
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RE: Error 128 when creating RAID4 on SoftRAID Pro 7.6 (CFBundleExecutable property, executable can't be found)

I was able to create a volume after connecting both enclosures directly to the mac (no daisy chaining), restarting and re-initializing all the disks. ...

6 months ago
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RE: Error 128 when creating RAID4 on SoftRAID Pro 7.6 (CFBundleExecutable property, executable can't be found)

> This is not a driver issue. Ventura always loads the 7.5 driver. My concern was not the difference between the version numbers (7.6 app vs 7.5 ...

6 months ago
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RE: Expanding RAID5 by adding 2nd ThunderBay 4 Mini

Unfortunately I was unable to create a RAID4 volume due to Error 128 described here.

7 months ago
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RE: Expanding RAID5 by adding 2nd ThunderBay 4 Mini

Awesome, will try. Would I get close to triple the performance if I were to distribute the 8 drives across three enclosures (i.e. 3+3+2 drives) instea...

7 months ago
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RE: Expanding RAID5 by adding 2nd ThunderBay 4 Mini

Thanks for the answer. What would be your best guess as to how fast the performance will be after? 1.5x? 2x? (Single enclosure RAID5 was 500/800 mb/s ...

7 months ago
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