Be patient. Wait until you can budget for a Thunderbay/Thunderolt enclosure. The main reason is reliabiity. USB is inherently not that for RAID. It...
Time remaining is more likely 30 hours. It can take days to certify disks, and USB is slower than Thunderbolt. It is valuable to certify disks (see...
Yes, I liked the HGST drives when I chose the WD-Re. At that point, my guy at MicroCenter in Cambridge noted a recent problem they had with DOA HGST d...
Yes, I liked the HGST drives when I chose the WD-Re. At that point, my guy at MicroCenter in Cambridge noted a recent problem they had with DOA HGST d...
My Boot Drive is a Striped Raid of two Samsung 850 EVO SSDs connected to the two extra Sata ports on the mainboard. Blackmagic is rating it with 500M...
Thanks for your recent response. Here is the link for checking your WD drives you can type in multiple serial numbers. One thing I do which might h...
Thanks for your timely response. After my post, I went back to see if i could find the article I read. It did confirm that consumer drives do try to...
It is a newer generation of Mac Pro (faster Bus and RAM) then my old 3.1 8x2.8 With 3 WD 2TB Black Caviar drives in Raid5 I get around 270MB/s read...
I was always led to believe that Enterprise drives were essential to RAID5, because of the way they reported errors. Are you saying that SoftRAID 5 d...