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MacDrive 10 Pro & SoftRAID - no RAID 5?

At this time, they do not support RAID 4/5/10. I know they are working on that, we will help them where we can. Just wondering if there's been...

5 years ago
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Problem updating SoftRAID driver with new iMac Pro

Can confirm this is fixed on my machine with the final release of 10.13.6 that came out today (build 17G65) - booting with Secure Boot set to Medium S...

6 years ago
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1st validate on new volume - LOTS of updated blocks

TRIM is generally better enabled. If you have a total disk failure, TRIM SSD's are very difficult to recover from. More than a normal SSD, which ar...

6 years ago
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1st validate on new volume - LOTS of updated blocks

TRIM is always updating sectors when the disk is inactive. What it effectively does is relocate and "erase" sectors, so the drive is faster when it is...

6 years ago
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RAID 1+0 - SSDs for the working discs, HDD for the mirror

Sorry I what I mean is, is this possible: - set up a 4-disc RAID 1+0 with a 16kb stripe size - remove the 2 mirror discs (essentially "converting...

6 years ago
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1st validate on new volume - LOTS of updated blocks

The first time you validate, expect lots of updated sectors - normal. The next time, you will get zero. Unless you have SSD drives, with TRIM enabl...

6 years ago
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RAID 1+0 - SSDs for the working discs, HDD for the mirror

If you intend to later convert a RAID 0 volume to a RAID 4 volume, you must select 16k Stripe unit size. We cannot convert any other kind of RAID 0 to...

6 years ago
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RAID 1+0 - SSDs for the working discs, HDD for the mirror

You cannot, so the best plan is cloning to a new drive, creating the RAID 0 with the SSD's, copying the data back, then putting in the new HDD's and c...

6 years ago
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RAID 1+0 - SSDs for the working discs, HDD for the mirror

Yes you can. In fact, I believe this is a configuration that OWC offers with the Thunderbay Mini. 2 SSD's and 2 HDD's. when you configure the RAID 1+0...

6 years ago
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Support for hybrid SSD/HDD drives (e.g. Seagate Firecuda)

4 disks failing a verify or certify indicates something else is going on. are these in a Thunderbolt enclosure, or USB? I'm running a ThunderBay ...

6 years ago
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Problem updating SoftRAID driver with new iMac Pro

Another bit of info that might be of use: Secure Boot also seems to disable TRIM on external drives -

6 years ago
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Problem updating SoftRAID driver with new iMac Pro

Setting the new Secure Boot setting to No Security seems to have fixed it for me: Same here, I can now boot my iMac Pro with my Thunderbay connect...

6 years ago
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