So I bought some 8TB HDDs from OWC during their last sale. Just finished certification. Obviously the RAID 5 is going to be big, 24TB. I'm going to...

Okay thanks. So I certified again. It passed but reallocated 1 sector. I bought the disks from a local supplier, not OWC.

A Softraid volume (RAID 5) which is currently empty is now reported to have a disk that has failure predicted. This drive was certified just a few mon...

Thanks, but there isn't a SR recommended free space for a volume? That 85% filled volume is less likely to be successfully rebuilt compared to a 70% f...

Thanks. I got a completed backup of my MBP 1G main drive with backblaze and have subscribed to an annual plan. My diskdrill disk recovery of a fai...

Okay, Crashplan is not working out. After I put it on pause for a week whilst I was away , and then restarted it's been stuck in a synchronisation loo...

Okay, Crashplan still superslow. I'm not sure it's viable as a backup plan for me. If I use SR Raid 5 with OWC TB 4 and keep a spare drive ready, ...

Is it the same for those of us using SR for TB please?

Crashplan is taking ages. Typical speeds are 2-4Mbps. It's taken 4 days to backup 150GB, i've another 437 on my MBP. Is this typical? If so, it'd be a...

Okay cheers. Finally trying the free version of Crashplan. They say they will back up any external drives connected to the computer. Presumably this m...

Cheers. By spot checking, you mean checking every file? Then, yes.

My attempt to burn to image failed. I got to 28.5% or so but when I restarted due finder not behaving. The partial dmg had gone - previously I had bee...

Thanks. My enquiry to Seagate about the recovery warranty seems to show that they are not too familiar with the whole concept themselves. My followup ...

Another question. I now have a few drives that SR predicts will fail soon. The Scrooge in me wonders if I can use them for non-crucial applications fo...

Thanks, I bought Disk Drill because the preview from the demo version looked encouraging, and Disk Warrior doesn't have a demo/ trial version. DD is ...