Issues and questions with transferring array to Mac Mini - Windows Critical Issues https://forums.softraid.com/critical-issues-win/issues-and-questions-with-transferring-array-to-mac-mini/ SoftRAID Discussion Board en-US Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:17:20 +0000 wpForo 60 RE: Issues and questions with transferring array to Mac Mini https://forums.softraid.com/critical-issues-win/issues-and-questions-with-transferring-array-to-mac-mini/#post-22232 Sun, 01 Sep 2024 22:28:14 +0000 @jalari 

We sell a couple solutions, such as the Helios that have a PCI card available. If it is a full size card, you may need the "node titan", which handles the long PCI cards.

]]> Windows Critical Issues SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/critical-issues-win/issues-and-questions-with-transferring-array-to-mac-mini/#post-22232 RE: Issues and questions with transferring array to Mac Mini https://forums.softraid.com/critical-issues-win/issues-and-questions-with-transferring-array-to-mac-mini/#post-22223 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 19:56:43 +0000 Well, so far so good. I was able to copy off nearly everything from the array. There was a short list of files I could not access, but I can easily replace those. After finishing that, I erased the array and set it all up on the mac with the formatting it uses. Been copying things back onto the array and I'm about 30tb in and so far there has been zero errors, unless how it was acting before. It's even WAY faster than it was with the windows system for my read/write speeds. So far I am very happy to of made this change. I had a strong feeling that most of my issues were with the windows version of softraid. While the hardware was suspect, I just could not imagine I had that many bad drives. I guess I will see how the rest of the copying goes and see if any other errors pop up, but so far it seems to be 100% rock solid and so much better than it was. It sort of bugs me that I needed to go to this extreme, but I can't argue with the results.

Now I just need to see if there is some way for my to use my MegaRAID PCIe card that is setup with my old 32tb HDD array on the mac so its all on a single system. The mac has no internal PCIE slots I can use but there are ways for me to use a thunderbolt to pcie riser for something like this, but those mostly seem to be geared towards GPU's. I guess I will give it a shot and hope it works too.

]]> Windows Critical Issues jalari https://forums.softraid.com/critical-issues-win/issues-and-questions-with-transferring-array-to-mac-mini/#post-22223 RE: Issues and questions with transferring array to Mac Mini https://forums.softraid.com/critical-issues-win/issues-and-questions-with-transferring-array-to-mac-mini/#post-22209 Sat, 24 Aug 2024 17:10:49 +0000 @jalari 

Note: your problem on Windows was clearly hardware. reliable hardware does not corrupt data.

The volume data should be recoverable, but if there is actually data corruption already, it will be in the recovery.

There are two "Data recovery" applications we have found reliable for recovering data from volumes. These do not "repair" your volume, they scan the volume, and enable you to copy the data to another device. R-Studio (https://www.r-studio.com), and Disk Drill (https://www.cleverfiles.com) are the two reliable recovery apps we have tested.

The problem you have is corruption is hard to locate, until you test the files.

You could scan the volume for free, and see if they find the "structure", before you even commit. I would try R-Studio on this recovery.

]]> Windows Critical Issues SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/critical-issues-win/issues-and-questions-with-transferring-array-to-mac-mini/#post-22209 RE: Issues and questions with transferring array to Mac Mini https://forums.softraid.com/critical-issues-win/issues-and-questions-with-transferring-array-to-mac-mini/#post-22208 Sat, 24 Aug 2024 13:39:14 +0000 @softraid-support 

 

As I mentioned in the original post, this array was moved from my windows installation to my new Mac Mini I just got just for all of this. I did fear that i may need to wipe the array and start it fresh from the Mac, but that will be pretty tricky since I would need to copy most of the data off first to try and keep what I can without the need to re-rip all of my movies and TV shows again. It was a large amount of work and I know I am going to need to do some of it anyway to replace the corrupted files, but I am trying to avoid as much of that as I can. It sounds like I may have no choice but to go down that route. Trying to use a NTFS drive setup on a Mac just is not a great idea I guess. It would of been nice to keep it within windows, but the software not really being made for windows is a bit of an issue. I originally wanted Raid 6, but that was not supported on windows. Plus other issues like not being able to change the storage type from Digital video to workstation on the windows platform was a bit annoying too. Anyway, it sounds like I will have no choice but to start over. I'll try and backup what I can from it, but sounds like I will need to re-rip everything anyway. Thanks and if I have anymore questions, I will let you know.

]]> Windows Critical Issues jalari https://forums.softraid.com/critical-issues-win/issues-and-questions-with-transferring-array-to-mac-mini/#post-22208 RE: Issues and questions with transferring array to Mac Mini https://forums.softraid.com/critical-issues-win/issues-and-questions-with-transferring-array-to-mac-mini/#post-22204 Sat, 24 Aug 2024 01:22:23 +0000 @jalari 

Windows support files cannot be posted here.

You have a serious issue. What file system is on this volume? You may need to run a data recovery application to get the data off.

Its possible the disk errors are from the prior installation, but generally they do indicate failed disks. Lets first worry about the data.

]]> Windows Critical Issues SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/critical-issues-win/issues-and-questions-with-transferring-array-to-mac-mini/#post-22204 RE: Issues and questions with transferring array to Mac Mini https://forums.softraid.com/critical-issues-win/issues-and-questions-with-transferring-array-to-mac-mini/#post-22203 Fri, 23 Aug 2024 20:40:28 +0000 I tried to attach it before but it did not seem to let me. I guess I did it wrong. Here is the support file from the mac. Not going to upload the one from the PC as I noticed it seems to put my license code in the report.

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]]> Windows Critical Issues jalari https://forums.softraid.com/critical-issues-win/issues-and-questions-with-transferring-array-to-mac-mini/#post-22203 RE: Issues and questions with transferring array to Mac Mini https://forums.softraid.com/critical-issues-win/issues-and-questions-with-transferring-array-to-mac-mini/#post-22202 Fri, 23 Aug 2024 20:36:40 +0000 @jalari 

Save a SoftRAID tech support file (Utilities menu) and attach it here. I can check with that.

]]> Windows Critical Issues SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/critical-issues-win/issues-and-questions-with-transferring-array-to-mac-mini/#post-22202 RE: Issues and questions with transferring array to Mac Mini https://forums.softraid.com/critical-issues-win/issues-and-questions-with-transferring-array-to-mac-mini/#post-22201 Fri, 23 Aug 2024 20:04:20 +0000 Well, that did not last very long. It shortly failed the rebuild after that, so I decided to restart as I suspected that plugging them in and trying to use them caused some issues. That does seem to be the case as the warnings and errors are mostly gone now. My only issue right now is in order to rebuild, it says it needs to be mounted, but when I try to mount, it tries for a while and eventually gives up but does act like its trying to rebuild still. The odd thing is that it already seems to be mounted, at least I have the icon on the desktop and can see/access all the files, but softraid thinks it's not mounted and eventually fails the rebuild. Do I need to eject the drive first from the desktop, and then mount it? Not sure what ejecting the drive will do so I want to see what your thoughts are before I try that.

]]> Windows Critical Issues jalari https://forums.softraid.com/critical-issues-win/issues-and-questions-with-transferring-array-to-mac-mini/#post-22201 RE: Issues and questions with transferring array to Mac Mini https://forums.softraid.com/critical-issues-win/issues-and-questions-with-transferring-array-to-mac-mini/#post-22200 Fri, 23 Aug 2024 19:14:04 +0000
Thanks for the reply. I received my mac mini and got things setup, transferred the license and all that. Thankfully, as you suggested, the Mac is reading the array okay, althought I got a large amount of S.M.A.R.T warnings for several drives, so that is not a great sign. It did instantly start the rebuild process and appears to be working 100% better than it did on my windows PC so far. I am going to let it finish the rebuild and see what happens. Its my hope that most of the smart issues were related to the windows PC, but we will see. As you said, having this many drives connected is not the best idea. For now I am going to let it rebuild while I learn how to use this mac. Need to figure out how to share the folders over the network like I was with my windows pc. Big learning curve ahead of me, ha ha. I'll update this post once I have more ingo.

 

2589]]> Windows Critical Issues jalari https://forums.softraid.com/critical-issues-win/issues-and-questions-with-transferring-array-to-mac-mini/#post-22200 RE: Issues and questions with transferring array to Mac Mini https://forums.softraid.com/critical-issues-win/issues-and-questions-with-transferring-array-to-mac-mini/#post-22198 Fri, 23 Aug 2024 18:58:43 +0000 Simply put, your Mac will just mount the volume automatically.

You can deactivate your license on windows, or you can also deactivate it here:
https://software.owc.com/license/

 

the fact you could not certify all the disks at the same time means the hardware you were using was probably not the best Thunderbolt support.

One warning, 4 devices over Thunderbolt may not be 100% stable. What could happen are random times when the disk eject. (any interruption of signal and disks power down, a known Thunderbolt issue)

to start with, make sure all cables are tightly connected and they never move! Lets see how it goes.

BTW: if your file system is ExFat, backup/delete the volume and create a new one with either APFS or HFS.

Mac's can handle NTFS, but you are relying on a third party driver.

If you already have HFS as your file system, nothing to do there.

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