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RE: Apple Partition AND SoftRAID Partition?

MacOS only allows one driver to control a disk. So you cannot have both on the same drive.SoftRAID 2/3/4/5 supported booting from SoftRAID disks, but ...

2 months ago
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RE: All questions about RAID 1+0

@smayer97 If you want to "remove disk" in a RAID 1+0, you can, but it has more chances to go wrong.(Picking the "wrong" drives). In RAID 4, its eas...

2 months ago
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RE: SoftRAID RAID 0 volume not mounted

There are few volume directory utilities for Windows, unfortunately. One you can investigate if you don't mind command line interfaces, is DM Disk Edi...

2 months ago
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RE: New Mercury Elite Pro Quad - Slow Performance?

@rslygh I have not seen anyone use ReFS on Windows, so do not know the impact. It should not by itself be slow, however. There is likely something ...

2 months ago
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RE: ThunderBay 8 (OWCTB83TKY, 2020) — Permanent Orange Light After SoftRAID 8 Premium First Activation — Complete Diagnostics Included

You misinterpreted what happened. There is no driver install when you "activate" premium, all that happens is more features are enabled.When you launc...

2 months ago
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RE: RAID not mounting

Its a directory issue, your volume directory was damaged somehow. I did not see any kernel panics or other explanations in the support file.did you di...

2 months ago
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RE: Migrating drives to new enclosure

The order of drives does not matter. Just carefully remove and replace into the new unit. Note that NVMe blades are more fragile than they appear and ...

2 months ago
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RE: All questions about RAID 1+0

@smayer97 "So, does this mean the Remove function cannot be used for the same purpose on a RAID 1+0? Does the same apply to a RAID 4 to remove the par...

2 months ago
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RE: All questions about RAID 1+0

@smayer97 RAID 10 cannot withstand the "wrong two" drives failing at once. If your secondary disks are all in a second enclosure,then as many as ha...

2 months ago
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RE: SoftRAID and Virtual Machine running older macOS

@smayer97 I have not used a VM on an older macos, but it appears that if the VM can share the files, it inteprets that for you. You just do not have "...

2 months ago
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RE: convert Raid5 to Raid0 stripe

@smayer97 RAID is not backup. If your data is important, you need at least two extra copies, one off site. Data is Ephemeral, there are so many way...

2 months ago
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RE: SoftRAID: Upgrading volume size over time?

You will not get the increased capacity until all disks are replaced, and then you can use the "resize volume" command in SoftRAID.

2 months ago
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RE: RAID 0 to RAID 1+0 Data Loss?

@mochidust Manually unmount your volume first, and try again. the disks were never attached to the existing volume, my guess is the volume could not b...

2 months ago
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RE: SoftRAID and Virtual Machine running older macOS

@smayer97 No. The guest OS does not directly access your internal APFS disk at all. What actually happens in a VM When you run a macOS VM: ...

2 months ago
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