j.a.duke
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Joined: Nov 28, 2017
Last seen: Aug 10, 2022
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RE: Certification Failure 6.3

Just to make things more interesting, I started a fresh certification round with all 5 drives and all 5 passed. Might have updated to the release o...

2 years ago
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RE: Certification Failure 6.3

If I verify the disk, it completes successfully (at least for a single drive that I ran). I've queued the remaining disks for a verify and will repor...

2 years ago
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RE: SR 6.3b20 (& 14) SSD dropping from array and rebuild stalled.

I've started a certify on the problem blade and it's up to 335+ hours and still climbing. To me that seems abnormally long, even for 2TB. No errors ...

2 years ago
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RE: SR 6.3b20 (& 14) SSD dropping from array and rebuild stalled.

No, it isn't backed up. This was (is) my scratch disk but I had a large download on it that I hadn't copied off yet. I'm OK with losing the entire v...

2 years ago
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"Internal" SoftRAID error during certification

The CLI is no faster, it cannot resume, but unless you restart, won't "quit". You can use it as: softraidtool disk disk2 disk3 disk4 disk5 certify...

4 years ago
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"Internal" SoftRAID error during certification

This bug is only that the Application loses contact with SoftRAID Monitor. It has no data impact. Operations like certify and zero disk are impact...

4 years ago
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New OWC Express 4M2 enclosure performance results

The cable issue is part of the Thunderbolt spec. Nothing anyone can do about it. If you are careful to put the M2/4 Express on different buses, you...

5 years ago
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New OWC Express 4M2 enclosure performance results

Yes it looks like you are correct. One extra is RAID 4 is faster for these configurations. Do IOPS figure into any performance calculation in our...

5 years ago
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New OWC Express 4M2 enclosure performance results

Has anyone tested this in RAID 5? Or are you running in RAID 5? It would appear that each blade gets ~700MB/s of bandwidth. So, getting the hig...

5 years ago
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Seagate Archive Drives

Was wondering if anyone is using 8TB Barracuda Compute or Archive drives in their Raid setups? I've got a Raid 5 now and want to upgrade it to a 4x8TB...

5 years ago
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Certify ... Effective Number Of Passes?

You recommend 3 passes when you certify a hard drive; is there any statistical advantage to this versus 1 pass? I ask because I just finished certifyi...

6 years ago
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Certify with another Computer

SoftRAID can certify any (disk) device, including USB thumbdrives. Yes you can move a disk from one machine to another. The idea behind a certify i...

6 years ago
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