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My Mac Pro 2013 (was running the last version of Mojave) died and so currently I've attached the OWC thunderbays with SR to my MBP15 2015 running Catalina beta 10.15.6 and SR XT 5.8.4. I've been getting expired SR notices on start up. I've been inserting the serial numbers on my thunderbays (I have 8 of them) and they're all coming up and invalid. Help please?
Posted : 01/09/2020 8:00 am
SoftRAID serial numbers are not expiring, so you must be entering them incorrectly.
Send me a SoftRAID tech support file with one of them entered.
Posted : 01/09/2020 1:16 pm
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One sec. I got a mac mini and trying to migrate my failing (it seems) SSD from the mac pro
Posted : 02/09/2020 6:20 am
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Okay, you were probably right. I finally got a working mac mini up and running (had an issue where migrating my network settings killed the internet). A new problem this morning. The mini had shutdown during sleep state (put there manually by me) and this error message came up. It mentions SR. Any ideas please? I have the rest of the report in capture shots.
Posted : 02/09/2020 6:32 pm
I can't begin to work with a screen shot, next time save this as a text edit file.
You can attach a SoftRAID Tech support file, perhaps it is in there.
This looks to be a problem with Virtual Memory, I do not know.
Posted : 03/09/2020 11:40 am
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Okay, it seems my Mac Pro 2013 is fixed (power supply issue). I've just sort of bedded in the new(er) Mac Mini 2018 (3.2GHz 6 core i7, 16G RAM). Should I just stick with the Mini as my main machine? I just do general Microsoft office stuff, browse the internet, watch movies, listen to hi res music through my DAC-Hifi. I am a data hoarder and paranoid, so I have 4 Thunderbay 4 (thunderbolt 2)(2 sets of RAID 5 with CCC backups). I got the used Mac Pro 2013 because I thought the design was funky and it had 6 TB2 ports.
I think the Mini is more setup for the future, and so far the TB2 thunderbays have been behaving with the Apple TB2-TB3 adapters. I bought the Mini because I sort of assumed that the Mac Pro 2013 that is out of warranty would be expensive to repair, if at all. Plus it appeared as a refurbished model, so a decent deal. Having said that, if I knew the Macpro 2013 would/ could be repaired so cheaply, I'd have probably soldiered on with my 2015 Macbook Pro as a temporary computer.
So the conundrum is that I have a machine 'spare' - do i stick with the Mini or go back to the trashcan.
Posted : 09/09/2020 8:16 am
Tough call!
the 2018 mini is pretty fast, not so much for video and intensive CPU, but IO is good. I like the extra Thunderbolt ports though. Maybe sell the Mac Pro for a decent price as you can always replace it again if need be, they are relatively common on ebay now.
Posted : 09/09/2020 6:18 pm
