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Hi, i have a OWC 4 bay Mercury Rack Pro that stopped working. It was configured as 4 independent drive channels and i was running a Raid 5 with SoftRaid.
Since the repairing process in warranty will take a long time and i have 4 USB ports on my mac mini, i wonder if i can just buy 4 cheap USB 3.0 independent 1 drive enclosures and continue to access my volume meantime.
I did numbered the disks from left to right as they were in the OWC Enclosure but not the "Softraid order Number".
So my questions are:
1) Is this possible?
2) If yes, does it matter the order i plug the individual disks?
2) If yes, do i need to turn all the disks on before turning the mac mini?
3) If yes, and 2 cases fail (ie power supply failure) but the disk are ok. Will my data be protected if i just replace the enclosure??
Posted : 23/10/2018 6:13 pm
Yes short term it will work. We advise against UBS usually as it is not as reliable.
All you would need to do is power up the disks, then your mini. It should work fine.
Replacing the enclosure is simple also, it will just work with the new enclosure.
good luck!
Posted : 23/10/2018 6:56 pm
