Thanks - better to know and allow time should I have to do again sometime. Just now in transition and testing of my photo files from old Aperture no l...

Interesting. Never thought number of volumes would matter but good to know. Have RAID5 setup with 9 volumes sized for their use on the Thunderbay 6. ...

Sure - here you go - SoftRAID tech support file. Appreciate the assistance. Kind regards, Mark

As suggested, I tried doing the copy with Carbon Copy Cloner. In the end it also took a long time, although not 2 days. Here are the results: Files ...

Interesting. I will give it a try. I have one file that is 1.5GB so that would be a good test for your scenario above. It is my photography image fi...

Problem remains. I have now used Disk Warrior and yes the volumes did need to be rebuilt as the Directory Optimization Index was 3, in Red zone and ...

I do have Disk Warrior and used it when setting up volumes. I will stop the copy and run DW on the volumes and report back. Thank you for the sugges...

Thank you so much. The restart did the trick. Many thanks! Mark

Would it help to provide a SoftRAID support file? If yes how do I provide? Thanks

Thank you for reply. Ok, so as I understand it I would need to certify each disk? In doing so SoftRAID reads / writes to each disk, thus would los...

Further, here is log entries for past few days: Jan 28 04:12:09 - SoftRAID Monitor: Starting SMART test on all disks which support SMART. Jan 28 0...

Thank you for the suggestion. I have purchased DiskWarrior and ran the Directory Rebuild and more problems have ensued. In the end the Volume in quest...