Recently I bought one of these 'NAS' machines - an Aoostar WTR Max. It's basically a AMD miniPC with 6 drive bays (and 5 NVME m2 drive) bays, so I gue...

I shouldn't consider EXFAT right?

Cheers. If I move to windows, should I keep my main file store on a Thunderbay flex 8 as apple format, relying on windows softraid 8 to read-wri...

Thunderbay 6 which has TB3 ports seems to be okay. But optimistically I tried to connect a Thunderbay IV with TB2 ports via an apple TB2-TB3 adapter a...

The ports on my windows laptop (Samsung Galaxy book 4 Ultra) are supposedly TB4. It has an intel chip, so should be more 'authentic' than AMD machines...

I didn't do the listing. I used the windows laptop to make a new NTFS volume. The Exfat drive copied over okay, as did another NTFS drive. I tried t...

The transfer completed to a NTFS softraid RAID 5 volume ok. The external drive was in EXFAT; usually I encounter problems copying HFS (particularly ca...

So I finally managed to tidy up my Mac Mini 2018, ready to decommision/consign it to secondary status. I installed Softraid 8 on my windows laptop. ...

This is the Flex 8 XT key which apparently was used to upgrade to SR 6 cheers

Hi, I had some difficulty loading up the pages to see my last query which seemed to be on a 'third' page but never actually loaded. I got my Flex 8...

Can't seem to load the third page

Okay. I recently got a Chinese windows tablet (Minisforum V3) and just out of interest, installed SR standard and plugged the flex 8 into the usb4 por...

First aid says volume could not be unmounted. edit: I manually unmounted, and now first aid is checking (catalogue file) edit again: it says volum...

It mounts fine on Mac (Catalina, 5.8.4). The errors are all on windows. Cheers

So I tried again. Shut down Mac, unplugged Flex 8 (RAID 5) and plugged it into a TB4 port on my laptop. Drive shows up in explorer, but when I click o...