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RE: Thunderbay 4 Finder Access Slow Even After DiskWarrior Rebuild and Reformat

@midihead7 Amphetamine won't sloe things down, either. You can look at activity Monitor, see if there is excessive memory pressure, or apps using a...

11 months ago
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RE: New Premium License Will Not Activate

@meltoots We do not understand the cause yet. We had a user willing to send us a system to investigate, but when I got it, he did not actually do t...

11 months ago
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RE: Thunderbay 4 Finder Access Slow Even After DiskWarrior Rebuild and Reformat

@midihead7 Yes, that would fix any/all fragmentation. And, even with a relatively fill volume, it should not take forever opening folders after d...

11 months ago
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RE: Thunderbay 4 Finder Access Slow Even After DiskWarrior Rebuild and Reformat

HFS requires about 15% free space, because there are so few allocation blocks, so yes, the fullnewss of the volume could be a factor. Normally, Disk...

11 months ago
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RE: New Premium License Will Not Activate

@meltoots Did you try deactivating ethernet and wifi, and trying manual activation? (You should get prompted when you try to enter your serial) T...

11 months ago
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RE: Rebuilding new 4 Seagate Ironwolf Pro 16TB No indicator lights on two drives

@matty No, but the power supply could have been getting weaker over time. this is all speculation, of course.

11 months ago
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RE: Unable to remount volume

@spy90 Note: unlike the Apple forums, a panic log is not needed, they are included in a SoftRAID tech support file, and attaching that does not clu...

11 months ago
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RE: Rebuilding new 4 Seagate Ironwolf Pro 16TB No indicator lights on two drives

@matty Yes we offer enclosures without SoftRAID, for reasons like this. Note: If you get the enclosure with SoftRAID, that comes with a 3 year lice...

11 months ago
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RE: Rebuilding new 4 Seagate Ironwolf Pro 16TB No indicator lights on two drives

@matty Disks are randomly assigned disk #'s at startup.And if a volume mounts, any disk showing up later will get a higher number. Note: Please d...

11 months ago
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RE: SoftRAID Volume IDs as EFI 12 TB MS DOS Volume

@kaijujoe66 What I can see is the volume was erased as APFS. (or converted). Did MacOS ask to convert this volume to Time Machine? that would expla...

11 months ago
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RE: Rebuilding new 4 Seagate Ironwolf Pro 16TB No indicator lights on two drives

@matty Perchance are the two disks (replacement and the one ejecting) next to each other, either AB, or in CD positions? You can use Blink disk lig...

11 months ago
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RE: RAID 6

@nyc_th Yes it is under development. I cannot say more, until we are ready for a public beta

11 months ago
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RE: Need to upgrade to Version 8 for Sequoia

Yes it will mount fine. You can purchase SoftRAID standard (free), which has minimal features, but will let you replace a failed disk.

11 months ago
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RE: SoftRAID Volume IDs as EFI 12 TB MS DOS Volume

Can you attach a SoftRAID tech support file? this often means a rogue utility overwrote or initialized the SoftRAID status partition with data. Soft...

11 months ago
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RE: i/o errors, Degraded, Failed Notices After Rebuilding Using DiskWarrior

Just clear the IO counters. This is an old issue that sometimes happens, it essentially means the disks were asked to read from a non existent locatio...

11 months ago
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