Last seen: May 11, 2026
This is the nature of SSD's. You will never (nearly never) see updated blocks on HDD's. However, TRIM means that the drives are always moving data and...
We are close to fixing this bug. It might make it into 7.0.1. Otherwise, the next update. If you cannot wait, then yes, Big Sur/6.0.5 (or older) wil...
@sgoto I think what is going on is on a RAID 5 volume, there are many small I/O's sent to the system (SoftRAID is multi threaded to help performanc...
ll you should need to do is clear the io errors, (utilities menu) and that will take care of this. A disk may have temporarily hung, is all that hap...
@sgoto Did you "Allow" OWC as an identified developer when you installed the driver? You can "reinstall SoftRAID driver", then allow OWC again.
@sgoto Attach a SoftRAID support file. (Utilities menu)
@scatteredbrain APFS is in theory more robust, but still has issues. My problem with APFS at present is there are no "repair" tools when anything g...
@rsmith4321 Let me know if any more issues.
@sgoto Please try this yes. Just pull it one inch.
@rsmith4321 You can reinstall over the old OS and it does NOT overwrite your existing system, apps or anything. It only replaces the internal MacOS...
@sgoto One would be enough. But yes, this is the DART IO controller that is crashing. DOes it still panic if you remove one disk from the enclosu...
Apple essentially has no repair tools for MacOS HFS volumes with damaged directories. So you choices are: Backup/restoreConnect to a Intel/Big...
@rsmith4321 If you ran "sudo softraidtool uninstall" and still have the driver loading, this is a problem in MacOS. It is not resetting the extensi...
Please save a panic log as .txt (Make plain text) in Text Edit. Attach it. I suspect this is the DART IO controller error.
No. Its simple. Just install SoftRAID onto your new computer. then connect the drives. On M1 you need to do this:

