Last seen: Apr 26, 2026
In theory you can converts a 4 drive RAID 4 to a 6 drive RAID 1+0. But there are some bugs in the UI and its likely to fail, its on our list of bugs t...
@steve223 Then look in the logs and figure out which drive is not showing up. Is it the same one every time?how many power on hours do these drives (o...
Note: If the drive always shows up, but between 1 minute and 2 minutes after startup/connecting, you can set the disk "time out" in RAID preferences t...
@steve223 THe 12TB (4th drive) is missing. this is a hardware issue. Either that drive is faulty (disappearing), or that slot is faulty.Give the di...
@allenat We don't have a specific requirement for USB cables, just keep in mind that unlike Thunderbolt cables, there is no certification process for ...
@allenat Looks like you may have had some cabling/connection issues. Your Time Machine volume no longer mounts? even after restart? You can try...
@steve223 This issue is a hardware or MacOS issue, 100%. SoftRAID has zero to do with sleep type issues. Same with the disconnects, the SoftRAID ...
@steve223 Test the Tahoe beta and see it is any better... (its pretty reliable, some third party utilities may have bugs)
@jjlelandais Maybe the issue is one of the drives. Two of them are way past their replacement period, at 72,000 hours. If you rebuild the directo...
Multi posting is not helpful! Your other enclosures do not tell you such issues. SoftRAID is very active on telling you what is going on with the dr...
I think I have (unsuccessfully) mentioned that ejects are issues on the Apple side. SoftRAID is the messenger, telling you what happened on the hardwa...
@rnb2 SoftRAID app should show when it expired, in Monitor or "about SoftRAID".First time you renew, you create an account, or use this page to set up...
My guess is your volume directory is damaged and was marked read only by MacOS? Can you write data to it? 16TB needs to be rebuilt. You can run Ac...
@chobochobo It should be fine, as long as the computers drive system is reliable. You don't even need to reconfigure the RAID volume if you don't w...
On the same computer, nothing to do except run SoftRAID and activate. You can activate on all systems on the computer. If you run the beta in a sepa...
