@stevebgb Wish I knew. Engineering has its schedule. One thing I learned is good engineers do not go from project to project, they complete one item a...

the drives spinning up and down is a Hibernate issue, they spin up when the Mac wakes to check for activity. This also spins up the drives. You will n...

@john-graham SMR vs CMR is a scandal. Drive companies backtracked, but then started sneaking in SMR without labelling again. Its a confusing issue to ...

@dguisinger01 I am pretty sure the only "SMR" drives we ever sell are the low end 1-2TB drives, which are difficult to get at good price points with S...

Also note..... If you read the File Sysstem page you linked to, it does mention these very issues. "It’s important to note that exFAT is not “jou...

@downunder the price is correct if your license support plan expired for a sufficiently long time. We unfortunately needed to discourage users fr...

Here is the problem. ExFat is not a journaled file system. It does not have protection against directory damage. ExFat was invented in 2006 for remo...

@downunder Is there also a "Renew" option? Upgrade would upgrade to Pro, renew is to refresh the support+ upgrades plan.

The volume must mount to rebuild. When was the last time it mounted?

@kaijujoe66 You are not the only one to be impacted by this bug. Glad it is working!

@kaijujoe66 What if you explicitly share a folder on that volume?

@kaijujoe66 I have a Sonoma installation here. (both intel and M2)Set up File sharing. Clicked "i" (info button)added the R5 volume with +logged in...

@wisehaus We will have a public beta this week.

@john-graham No this is unlikely to be a shingle issue. What would happen was rebuilds would start fast, then after about 10-20 minutes get much sl...

@wisehaus the beta works correctly, on your system, correct? there is no issue running a beta, as the driver that loads the same release driver.