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Was this a one time panic? or does it keep happening?

 
Posted : 17/01/2021 8:38 pm
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It was one time when I physically connected T7 to Thunderbolt enclosure.

After reboot it's working fine for more than 6 hours.

 
Posted : 17/01/2021 9:16 pm
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Probably nothing to be done then

 
Posted : 17/01/2021 9:58 pm
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Mac Mini M1 OS 11.1, Softraid b48, clean install. I have now tried multiple times to uninstall and reinstall the driver on the startup disk. I have *not* yet tried to plug in my Thunderbay. I am waiting to confirm that this looks OK because I no longer have the option to add OWC as an identified developer in Security & Privacy > General. I did reduce security in the recovery system and select the option to allow the kernel extensions as instructed. Is the driver running properly? If so, why don't I see the OWC option in the Security & Privacy pref pane? Thanks

 

 
Posted : 19/01/2021 1:27 am
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The driver is loaded. You can check your self using terminal, with this command:

sudo kextstat -b com.softraid.driver.SoftRAID

 

You will see 6.0.1 b48 is loaded.

 
Posted : 19/01/2021 2:59 am
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Hi, my external hardrive is constantly spinning, no faster but each two seconds...

 

 
Posted : 19/01/2021 12:05 pm
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SoftRAID does not control disks spinning. That is a MacOS feature/responsibility. If the drive lights are accessing, perhaps it is spotlight indexing the volume, or having problems creating the index?

 
Posted : 19/01/2021 4:23 pm
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@softraid-support thanks for your answer but I disabled the spotlight for the hard drive. It's weird...

 
Posted : 19/01/2021 4:27 pm
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@softraid-support and it's running even if it's unmounted

 
Posted : 19/01/2021 4:31 pm
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When you sleep your mac, they power off, correct? I do not think macOS has individual drive control over sleep.

But it is OK, as there is no statistical data showing that active (spinning) vs. sleeping drives have any lifespan difference.

 
Posted : 19/01/2021 4:48 pm
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@softraid-support when my mac sleeps, the hard drive stops spinning.

 
Posted : 20/01/2021 3:26 am
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It appears they are working normally. If something is accessing them constantly, look at Activity Monitor to see if you can figure it out. Maybe you installed something that checks your disks, accesses your system, I can only guess.

 
Posted : 20/01/2021 9:59 am
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@softraid-support ok thanks

 

 
Posted : 20/01/2021 10:30 am
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I have a question about read/write speed.

ThunderBay 4 Thunderbolt 3 populated with 4 WD RED Plus (CMR) HDDs. Each drive individually tested is about 167 MB/s

What speed should I expect from RAID 5

Thanks

 
Posted : 22/01/2021 3:23 pm
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450MB/s reads and writes on a new volume.

 
Posted : 22/01/2021 5:31 pm
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