Followed directions to the letter. Re-build has begun. Maybe it won't take as long as I thought. Showing about 6 hours on the counter. Not too bad.

Just saw your "fail over" update (thank you). Yes, I pulled the disk in Bay 3 specifically because I thought that would be wise so the RAID didn't run...

Before I go ahead and do this (4TB over HDD will take all night), doesn't this notification confirm that if I remove the missing secondary disk, it's ...

@softraid-support I don't use time machine. I saw no blinking whatsoever. Currently about to "Remove Missing Secondary Disk" to this now broken RAID 1...

Going to keep working on this into the night with updates. Tried removing and reinstalling both disks. No fix. Then tried removing both disks and swap...

Just confirmed this follows the computer. Directly connected to i9 MacBook Pro with Monterey/SoftRAID 7. Everything I wrote above just now has followe...

Oh man, now things just took a new next level. Getting the disk back into the bay did indeed show and the volume does mount. But now instead of a sing...

Is it the enclosure after all? More weird things just happened, all repetitions of previous events. (what's beginning to concern me is any repetition;...

@softraid-support great, thanks! That helps me decide that leaving these disks in the trays and periodically swapping to update the backups is a fine ...

@softraid-support Insertion/Removal cycles. When I found the Icy Dock enclosure for the NVMe sold with the enclosure in tray 1, I looked them up and s...

@softraid-support Thanks. If I move it onto the desk where I want it, the side of the Flex 8 will be 6 - 8 inches from the side of the Studio Display....

@softraid-support thanks for this reply, it helps

That makes things much clearer, thank you. Yes, when the computer goes to sleep, the enclosure goes to sleep. About to start a 3-pass certification ...