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RE: Drives don't connect when plugging in the T4 cables

@henry-in-florida Our SSD's give good performance BTW. If you certify the drives, you will also see any failing drives by very long certify times...

7 months ago
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RE: Drives don't connect when plugging in the T4 cables

@henry-in-florida Glad this is figured out. Couple comments:"verify" does nothing for flash media, only a "certify" can help clear pre-written s...

7 months ago
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RE: Drives don't connect when plugging in the T4 cables

@henry-in-florida Only a "certify disk" can try to refresh the media. verify does not do anything for flash media, it requires a write/ then a 0 wr...

7 months ago
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RE: Drives don't connect when plugging in the T4 cables

@henry-in-florida Note: A quick check with ChatGPT (its useful for some things) I don't think this is your issue, but it did have some issues on the 8...

7 months ago
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RE: Drives don't connect when plugging in the T4 cables

@henry-in-florida I do not think the drives are "worn out". With TRIM enabled (it is), the drives won't get slowdowns on writes. Writing 6TB on 2TB...

7 months ago
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RE: Drives don't connect when plugging in the T4 cables

@henry-in-florida Same setup, daisy chained enclosures off the dock, 2200MB/s writes, 2400 MB/s reads on modern SSD drives. So you have a reference...

7 months ago
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RE: Drives don't connect when plugging in the T4 cables

@henry-in-florida Still, for an 8 drive RAID 4, not good. You can at least do the split Thunderbolt connections without reconfiguring. Just remov...

7 months ago
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RE: Change enclosure / use enclosure for mutliple array

@nightjar Touch large metal before touching the drives. Be careful with carpet which generates static electricity.In the older days, you needed to ...

7 months ago
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RE: Drives don't connect when plugging in the T4 cables

@henry-in-florida My initial test was a M1 laptop, 2 Thunderbay Mini's with really old SSD's and a OWC Thunderbolt 3 dock. It should get close enou...

7 months ago
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RE: Drives don't connect when plugging in the T4 cables

@henry-in-florida I will try to set up your system as best I can. I cannot match everything. Did you change your AJA settings and get the same re...

7 months ago
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RE: Drives don't connect when plugging in the T4 cables

@henry-in-florida I only see an older support file from you. I can try to reproduce your hardware, just so you have a sanity check. I do not forsee...

7 months ago
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RE: Got major disk errors after using Mac OS 26 beta

@peterinjapan This is highly unlikely to be a SoftRAID issue, more likely a firmware issue with the enclosure.Use ChatGPT to help debug it, it will...

7 months ago
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RE: SoftRAID 8.6 update issue with retaining license info

@iftibashir Effectively yes. At that time, just "buy" a free Standard version.

7 months ago
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RE: Add disk to Raid 5 array

@donkadoo I understand. But expanding a volume by adding drives is not as simple as it looks, as it needs to support all types of hardware. Includi...

7 months ago
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RE: Drives don't connect when plugging in the T4 cables

@henry-in-florida First, with AJA, you must make these settings:Set resolution to 8K video, Codec to 16bitRGBA, and filesize to 64GB. Next, in sett...

7 months ago
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