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RE: Kernel Panic on older Intel Based Mac with Ventura

@soluwalana Interesting, that is good news, there may be a hardware component to this panic. I have not been able to reproduce it in our lab.

3 years ago
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RE: Write performance on Windows 11

@stevev There is not anything you can do, but you should have had a response. If I can find the case, I will make sure someone responds.

3 years ago
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RE: Slow encryption

@mwob You need to use AJA System for more consistent results. (select the max video resolution, 64GB file size, RGBA codec and in settings, use dua...

3 years ago
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RE: Samsung 970 NVMe M2, OWC 4M2, Thunderbolt and SoftRAID

You do not have enough space for RAID 1+0, so use RAID 4 or 5. Sonoma support will be available at or shortly after Sonoma release. beta MacOS softw...

3 years ago
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RE: SMB shares from soft raid volumes can't be mounted from remote server under Sonoma

@ichavis This is definitely a MacOS bug, lets hope it is fixed before release.

3 years ago
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RE: Strange, volume failure.

The problem is more than one disk went out of sync, so the volume cannot be rebuilt. I note you validated the volume, also. So use "recover failed d...

3 years ago
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RE: Regular HDD knocking sound from Thunderbay RAID while unmounted

@johhnyjackhammer Back in the day, this problem was called "stiction". Many drives had this problem, where there was not enough power to spin up th...

3 years ago
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RE: Regular HDD knocking sound from Thunderbay RAID while unmounted

@johhnyjackhammer FYI: the SoftRAID driver does not ever initiate IO, except for rebuilding. So any IO you are hearing is MacOS. My expectation wou...

3 years ago
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RE: Many new variables complicate troubleshooting an issue with newly created RAID 1+0

This is clearly a connection issue, perhaps caused by the cable. (or port, etc) This is essentially a electrical noise issue. Every contact point on...

3 years ago
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RE: Mac 13.4 - Tried many variables... "Failed because this disk is being used by another application"

@micheloupatrick Yes, the application needs it to do things like unmount volumes, etc. Some application tasks could fail if the application does not...

3 years ago
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RE: Kernel Panic on older Intel Based Mac with Ventura

@soluwalana This is appearing to be a MacOS kernel issue. We have not heard anything whether it is being worked on, but we asked it be investigated...

3 years ago
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RE: Slow encryption

SSD performance is fine on encrypted volumes. There is an issue in MacOS that we are working on, that causes the slow RAID 5 performance.We hope to ...

3 years ago
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RE: Thunderbay Mini (TB2) RAID 4 suddenly won't mount

@dmetz Apple is about the biggest company in the world, with a major MacOS customer base, and "drive" manufacturers still cannot be bothered to do ...

3 years ago
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RE: Thunderbay Mini (TB2) RAID 4 suddenly won't mount

@dmetz Thanks for posting. SSD's and NMVe's are not in the class as hard drives in terms of easy compatibility with various systems, Macs in partic...

3 years ago
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RE: Mac 13.4 - Tried many variables... "Failed because this disk is being used by another application"

@joshblive Can you check in System Settings, Privacy, if the SoftRAID Application is listed in "full disk access"?

3 years ago
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