Last seen: Oct 25, 2025
Well, it cost me buying a spare drive. But it will likely be needed sometime soon. The only thing I can add is that somehow it occurred during (before...
Validation Report validating the Volume RAID 4 SSD a 6TB RAID set which consists of NVMe disk set, running in Sequoia and also proven in later versio...
@SoftRAID Support, BTW, here is a screen shot of the Speed test with AJA System Test Lite after the rebuild. It started out much lower but with rep...
@SoftRAID Support, Certify checked out the drive with 0 errors, I initialized and restore the RAID 0 to full operation and copied my 161GB of data i...
Since I had not heard from @SoftRAID Support about this yet, possibly because it is unpublished(?), I am adding that since this is a RAID 0 array I ca...
@RAIDSupport Thanks for the time spent guiding me through this issue! And the reference materials supplied, too. 😀
@SoftRAID Support Another thing I notice on both my RAID (NVe & SATA) checking performance, hours and media life is that in RAID4 Array the spee...
Actually the testing you had me do, combining 500GB into a RAID0 for testing, let me down a rabbit hole, since by themselves the BX-500's worked, but ...
What would be a 100% match to 870EVO?
@SoftRAID Support Thanks for comments. Also found out that mix/match with non-matching SATA drive configurations make a big difference to write sp...
@SoftRAID Support, For you or anyone else interested, found that Crucial BX500 (upon testing a pair) make a pretty poor product for a RAID install o...
@SoftRAID Support, Replaced the culprit drives - the slow-downs: two Samsung drives 840, 850EVO (Crucial Tech BX500 6Gbs SATA) Testing 6 Drive Test ...
Here's a screenshot of the second drive tested singly to show it slows down regardless of whether it's in a RAID or not. and also that upon checking t...
On a "bad" drive the verify made absolutely no difference. On a marginal drive there was a small improvement to the Write Performance and nothing chan...

