Converting Volumes - SoftRAID Forum

Can't Resize Volume

NegCap — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:06:08 +0000

I am running an OWC Thunderbay with 4 bays. I had 12, 12, 8 and 5 and recently replaced the 5 with another 12TB drive. After replacing the drive and certifying the new drive, everything is up and running. The problem is that when I go to re-size the volume, I get the message that there has been an internal error and to restart the app. I did this whole thing because I was down to 1TB free and if I can re-size it then I can solve that problem. I am running a Mac with Sonoma 14.4.1 and SoftRaid 8.0 and drive 8.0. Can anyone help me? I have restarted and I am not sure what else I can do. When I go to re-size it says that the max is 24TB. When I chose 24, it says it will take up to 60 seconds and then fails, giving me the error message again.

Problem Deleting Volume to expand from 3 to 4 HDDs >> "SoftRAID application has stopped functioning properly"

mandiberg — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 01:45:17 +0000

I have a Thunderbay 8, with a 3 HDD RAID 5 that I need to expand to a 4 HDD RAID 5. It was intended to be a 4 from the start, but one disk was bad and had to be sent back for warranty replacement which took a long time. I needed to build it as a 3 disk RAID to make sure the software was working (I was having problems getting it to work).

To change the size, I followed the instructions here: https://softraid.com/faq/can-i-add-a-disk-to-my-raid-4-5-softraid-array/ and disabled safeguard and attempted to delete the volume, following these instructions: https://softraid.com/faq/how-do-i-change-my-raid-volume-to-a-different-raid-level/

When I do that, I get an error that says “An internal part of the SoftRAID application has stopped functioning properly. Please quit SoftRAID and relaunch it.” I have quit and relaunched SoftRAID four times, and get the same error. The volume continues to function properly.

I have linked screenshots and a support report in this dropbox folder: . I am using SR 7.5 on M1 MacBook Pro running OS 13.3.1.

RAID 5 to RAID 1+0

dkabat — Tue, 09 May 2023 00:01:50 +0000

I will be replacing my 3 RAID 5 disks with new ones and would like to then convert to a 4 disk RAID 1+0. Is this possible if so how. I will first pull all 4 of the disks from the Thunderbay 4 and certify the 4 new ones. Then will replace the 3 RAID 5 disks with the new certified disks. At this point I am at a loss as to how to convert to 1+0 as well as making the size to take up only the 1st 40% of the new disks. Current 3 - 4tb disks will replace with 4 - 14tb disks

hope this makes sense and thank you

dan

RAID 6 Prep: Raid ? --> RAID 6 - A source RAID configuration with lowest probability of data corruption and loss.

skyward — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 18:32:03 +0000

Before committing data and subjecting HDD to a particular RAID config now, I'd like to know of official or unofficial 🙂 guidance as to the lowest 'risk' ie. of data corruption or data loss, source RAID config when converting data to a RAID 6 destination.

I need only SoftRaid's conversion operation risk parameters. Power, HDD &c. are existential and mitigated.

Increasing volume size

noggin2k1 — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 14:48:45 +0000

SoftRAID 7 pro, RAID 5 span across 2x 4 disk enclosures. 4TB disks in each, so 28TB useable.

If I was to one by one, replace the 4TB disks to 8TB disks, would the volume increase to 56TB useable? Whilst the repository is backed up online, I don't have a secondary physical repository to use, hence not a case of being able to: -> copy data -> replace disks -> copy data back to 56TB enclosure.

Convert Appleraid 1 to softraid 5?

Dennis — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 15:08:22 +0000

Currently I have a Thunder Bay 4bay. There are two 6tb drives using appleraid 1.

I just got two more 6tb disks that I want to use as a 4 disk raid 5 using SoftRAID.

What would be the procedure to make this happen. I see I can covert an apple raid to softraid, but, I'm not sure.

Encrypting / Converting Existing HFS+ Volume

m1macmini — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 03:05:30 +0000

I do have a current HFS+ volume that is not encrypted, and I would like to encrypt it (which is the main goal). As part of this, I figured I may want to (or need to) convert this volume to an APFS volume.

First of all: is that possible at all (the volume is RAID5)?

Next: Is this path doable:

- shrink the HFS+ volume (less then half of the volume is used)

- create a new (encrypted) APFS volume on the open space

- copy data from HFS+ volume to the APFS volume

- erase HFS+ volume to allow for more space for the APFS to grow.

(sorry. I am no file system expert)

RAID 1+0 to RAID 0?

chobochobo — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 02:46:29 +0000

I have a mini Thunderbay 4 - 4x 500GB drives that I set up as a 1+0. I tried this as one of the drives is a bit iffy (comes up with will 'die soon') messages but wasn't ready to chuck it out just yet. So I put the good drives as the primary pair and included the 'bad' drive in the mirror. The rationale being that I just replace that bad drive when it did die without compromising the data on the primary pair. So it happened yesterday - the array could not be mounted, so I went to replace the bad drive and add in a new one. However when rebuilding the offsets ran into the hundreds of millions and still at the end, it 'failed' - the process just halted and I couldn't mount the volume. I tried again with another good drive but same again. I thought that I might even mount the two good drives as a volume by themselves but there's no option that I can see.

The data on the volume isn't crucial, it was meant to be a 'scratch' volume of sorts, that's why I chose this method. However I thought I still had a level of convenience built in (see above). I'll just wipe and recertify the drives and build another volume, but I was wondering what causes what I thought was a fairly robust setup to not be able to rebuild/ mount when given a new drive please?

Split a volume

Spyro70 — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:53:22 +0000

Hi, I converted a hard drive to be monitored by Softraid. The drive is 4 TB and is unique, meaning it is not related to any raid type. I wanted to split the volume into two parts so that I could use one part for backup and another part for temporary storage of some files. I saw that in the menus of the program you can only use the "resize". There is no "split" function. But what happens if the "resize" function? Does it split the hard disk into two parts? Or does it only reduce the size of the whole disk? Thank you very much.

Raid to no-RAID?

ChrisMiami — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 15:10:51 +0000

Hi,

I have a RAID-5 array with 4 disks and I'd like to just use the disks individually, and manage backup manually. I'm not sure what to do in SoftRAID to make this happen. Do I "Delete a Volume" 4 times? Will this also delete the SoftRAID drivers and just make the disks "normal" again?

Thanks,
Chris