Okay first hiccup. Mysteriously my 24TB JBOD would not mount, the disks are all there and 'online' according to Disk Utility. First aid says there is ...

LOL, thanks. So I didn't get the Mac Pro. In the end I found a cheap 2014 mac mini which has 2 TB2 ports. I got it mainly to keep things running ...

LOL, thanks.

So would it be a bit silly to get a Mac Pro 2013 primarily for the thunderbolt ports?

Thanks. I'm not using the USB for RAID, I'm using them as standalone drives and using CC to copy certain directories to the drives. The USB is housing...

An error "should not" hang an entire system, but can. SATA spec says a disk that encounters a problem can time out for up to two minutes while it work...

So yesterday one of my 4TB disks in my 4x4TB RAID 5 was marked for replacement. I swapped it out and after 12 hours the RAID is back up with no proble...

No, I want to use my SR volume in a TB4 enclosure with the NAS but you answered the question anyway. And plus there isn't a TB port on the NAS so the ...

Me again. So now I'm using CCC to backup my 24TB and 12TB RAID 5 volumes to the two old 5 bay USB enclosures that I was using before SR/TB. That means...

I can configure CCC to backup only half a volume?

Thanks. So what's more sensible, split the 4x8TB 24TB RAID 5 into 2x12TB volumes and then clone each of these to one of the 4x4TB RAID 5 or make th...

Another scenario, the 2 TB4s with 4x4TB that I had and copied data over to a third TB4 with 4c8TB drives - I can make a big Raid 5 with the 8x 4TB dri...

Wait. So I can make my TB4 with 4 x 8TB drives into 2 x12 TB Raid 5 volumes?

Thanks. I have backblaze for the internal SSD of my MBP, it's too slow for these softraid volumes. Quick question. You don't subdivide volumes righ...