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

@ eMouse Is this still the hang issue?If so, post the activity Monitor results here.

3 years ago
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RE: Mystery Slow Down - usually on waking from sleep

@eMouse Instead, open Activity Monitor. Sort by CPU. What is taking up the most CPU or threads? is any process showing as hung? This is in the pan...

3 years ago
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RE: Need Proper RAID stripe size

@jjsereday Just use 64k stripe unit size. You need 64k for RAId 5 if you are getting hit with the M1 DART bug (Note: It is confirmed as a Apple Sili...

3 years ago
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RE: PLEASE SUPPORT SYSTEM EXTENSION

@bvp This is up to Apple, but we we hope to have this. That is all I can say at this time.

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

@Henry-In-Florida This is the link to the current beta. And it works with 13.3 beta.

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?

@eMouse I can check this, have not tested with FireWire in a fairly long time.

3 years ago
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RE: FIRST! - But Seriously, Recommended Stripe Size for Accelsior?

@RGPphotog the 16k issue is only RAID 5, as it is the large amounts of small IO's that seems to trigger the DART controller to crash. 64k is a good ...

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?

@eMouse This is a weird panic. It appears that the FireWire driver is crashing. Did you have a FireWire drive connected?

3 years ago
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RE: FIRST! - But Seriously, Recommended Stripe Size for Accelsior?

@RGPphotog I would just use 64k. Especially on Flash media. Even 16k works on flash.

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?

@eMouse You saw the menu item, Make Plain text?"If you get info on your file, it may reveal the name as name.txt.rtf otherwise.

3 years ago
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RE: Two 4 HDD RAID 1+0 possible in a OWCTB38SRKIT0 (OWC ThunderBay 8) ?

@skyward Can you give me clearer information? It depends on the disks, RAID level, etc.Do you want a relative number 4 drives in RAID 10 and 8 drive...

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?

@eMouse In Text Edit, you must "Make Plain text" in format column. Otherwise it always saves as rtf, which is not supported. I would like to see the...

3 years ago
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RE: Upgrading Mirrors to Larger Drives

Note: SoftRAID 6.0.5 requires Big Sur or older, back to 10.12. downloads.owc.com/softraid/mac/archives/SoftRAID+6.0.5.dmg

3 years ago
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RE: RAID 6 Prep: Raid ? --> RAID 6 - A source RAID configuration with lowest probability of data corruption and loss.

@skyward you are referring to when we are able to add RAID 6 to SoftRAID? it will be incredibly well tested and we intend to support RAID 5 to 6. ...

3 years ago
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RE: Two 4 HDD RAID 1+0 possible in a OWCTB38SRKIT0 (OWC ThunderBay 8) ?

@skyward Meaning in a 8 bay, create a pair of 4 drive RAID's? Absolutely. There are no limits like this. You can also create two 8 drive RAID volume...

3 years ago
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