Newbee Question - Powering Down? - New Features/Suggestions https://forums.softraid.com/new-features/newbee-question-powering-down/ SoftRAID Discussion Board en-US Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:08:51 +0000 wpForo 60 RE: Newbee Question - Powering Down? https://forums.softraid.com/new-features/newbee-question-powering-down/#post-19008 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 21:08:07 +0000 Best recommendation with RAID, is unmount, wait a minute then power them off (give the disks time to flush the disk cache)

Not much you can do about extended power failures, but they should be OK. HFS volumes can always be repaired with Disk Warrior, but APFS has no repair tools. Since one is a backup of the other, you should be fine.

]]> New Features/Suggestions SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/new-features/newbee-question-powering-down/#post-19008 Newbee Question - Powering Down? https://forums.softraid.com/new-features/newbee-question-powering-down/#post-19006 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 18:55:11 +0000 I just created my first volume with SoftRAID and a ThunderBay 8, and everything is working well.  I have a question that I feel dumb for asking.  What is the best/recommended procedure for powering down a ThunderBay 8?  I'm assuming I can restart and/or shut down my server and then switch off the ThunderBay 8.  Or, can I simply "Eject" the drive from the desktop and then switch off the ThunderBay 8?  With the RAID being controlled from the server I don't know how fragile this relationship is.  I come from a Drobo environment where I always went into the Drobo Dashboard to power down the enclosures.

Another question, kind of related.  I live in an area where have power failures 2-4 time a year.  I have the server and enclosures on a UPS.  I'm worried that if I not home and I have a power outage that last longer than my UPS something could go wrong.  Any recommendations would be appreciated.  

Just FYI, my server is a Mac Studio and I have 2 ThunderBay 8's, one RAID 0 being backed up to another RAID 5.

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