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RE: Is 64k stripe size the only working option for RAID5 on Apple Silicon with v7 as well?

@midihead7 The standard recovery does not affect your settings, correct. If you unenroll first, I am guessing 13.4 will be installed. It has to, ...

3 years ago
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RE: Is 64k stripe size the only working option for RAID5 on Apple Silicon with v7 as well?

@midihead7 What will work is start up into recovery mode. Select options. "reinstall MacOS". this will likely fix what ever is wrong and update to ...

3 years ago
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RE: Is 64k stripe size the only working option for RAID5 on Apple Silicon with v7 as well?

@midihead7 Can you "Check for updates"? USually it is easy to get off the beta cycle. The final beta RC2 is the release version, but yours is not...

3 years ago
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RE: Is 64k stripe size the only working option for RAID5 on Apple Silicon with v7 as well?

@midihead7 What version of MacOS is running. (about this mac, click on 13.4, and it will show a build number.)

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

@dsnake10 I saw the the event in the support file. They do erase in disk utility? Lets try in terminal: unmount the volume, then run this com...

3 years ago
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RE: Reduced read/write performance

@kevinmonahan MacOS has built in defrag, but only for the internal drive. this defragmentation for System volumes feature killed the revenue stream...

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

@dsnake10 I do not see why. If you erase one with Disk Utility as HFS, then go to SoftRAID, can you initialize it now?

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

Note: We never want the SoftRAID Log posted, instead you would post the SoftRAID tech support file. It also leaves the forum readable for others. Th...

3 years ago
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RE: Reduced read/write performance

This is a MacOS HFS directory issue almost for sure. Best answer is get the commercial Utility Disk Warrior, it will (very likely) return performance ...

3 years ago
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RE: PLEASE SUPPORT SYSTEM EXTENSION

This is fixed as of MacOS 13.3

3 years ago
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RE: SoftUnRAID?

@mbezzo It appears attractive, however, it is pretty complex to do this reliably. the stripe unit size would have to be variable on disks (affects ...

3 years ago
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RE: macOS 13 (Ventura) public beta

@mwigle Please save a SoftRAID Technical support file (Utilities menu) with all disks connected and attach it to your response, so I can investigat...

3 years ago
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RE: Convert a HFS+ raid to APFS?

@smayer97 'Thanks, I will try recommending it when I next see an unmountable APFS volume. that would be great news!

3 years ago
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