BurningMan
@burningman
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Last seen: May 4, 2024
Topics: 4 / Replies: 32
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RE: Expanding RAID5 by adding 2nd ThunderBay 4 Mini

Awesome, will try. Would I get close to triple the performance if I were to distribute the 8 drives across three enclosures (i.e. 3+3+2 drives) instea...

3 years ago
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RE: Expanding RAID5 by adding 2nd ThunderBay 4 Mini

Thanks for the answer. What would be your best guess as to how fast the performance will be after? 1.5x? 2x? (Single enclosure RAID5 was 500/800 mb/s ...

3 years ago
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RE: All devices missing from SoftRAID app

Same issue here, the link to 7.0 is not working.

3 years ago
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4 years ago
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RE: RAID 0 with 3 drives only has 2x performances

If I understand the response from OWC tech support correctly, RAID4 is not expected to perform above 2x single drive performance. They linked the foll...

4 years ago
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RE: RAID 0 with 3 drives only has 2x performances

Thanks for investigating, looking forward to your findings! To summarize: RAID4/5 with 4x SSDs in Thunderbay 4 Mini enclosure. Expected performance ...

4 years ago
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RE: RAID 0 with 3 drives only has 2x performances

@softraid-support Ok, so your numbers are not so far off of mine. Assuming that the 1TB OWC SSDs also have ~500MB/s single drive performance, you a...

4 years ago
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RE: RAID 0 with 3 drives only has 2x performances

@softraid-support So you didn't have any other TB components (display or a dock connected?)? Can you post the readings you got with AJA for 4x1TB O...

4 years ago
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RE: RAID 0 with 3 drives only has 2x performances

Spotlight has finished indexing and numbers are roughly the same. Blackmagic and AJA give very different write speed readings though. Which M1 mod...

4 years ago
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RE: RAID 0 with 3 drives only has 2x performances

Could you change the title/move the thread to make it clear that the issue is related to macOS/M1? I am currently transferring data so I won't be ab...

4 years ago
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RE: RAID 0 with 3 drives only has 2x performances

I guess this is now something that is not related to SoftRAID, but to the OWC enclosure <-> how M1 handles TB3 connections?

4 years ago
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RE: RAID 0 with 3 drives only has 2x performances

@softraid-support Updated to macOS 12.2.1. Seems like M1 is the culprit. i9 and macOS 12.2.1, one cable: 917MB/s (write), 1147MB/s (read) i9 an...

4 years ago
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RE: RAID 0 with 3 drives only has 2x performances

@softraid-support Both are 0.7m, one is OWC, other one is Anker, both have TB logo + 3 at their ends. This seems to be related either to the M1 p...

4 years ago
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RE: RAID 0 with 3 drives only has 2x performances

both are TB3 cables with 3s on them one, not sure if active or passive. both ports have the same specs in the system profiler. creating the raid0 in...

4 years ago
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