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RE: New Mac Studio M2. SoftRaid 8.3. ThunderBay Flex8. All Volumes Disappeared Waking Up - Not A Good Start!

@guitarflex Don't swap 3 with 7. Swap 4 with 7. I am concerned the enclosure may be failing also, this will help isolate that. One other thing...

1 year ago
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RE: New Mac Studio M2. SoftRaid 8.3. ThunderBay Flex8. All Volumes Disappeared Waking Up - Not A Good Start!

@guitarflex Remove missing secondary disk just removes all disks from the partition map that are not connected. (SoftRAID app would not know if the...

1 year ago
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RE: New Mac Studio M2. SoftRaid 8.3. ThunderBay Flex8. All Volumes Disappeared Waking Up - Not A Good Start!

@guitarflex If the volume was not on Time Machine, then more likely the Spotlight index was the cause. It can be damaged where it is on continuous ...

1 year ago
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RE: New Mac Studio M2. SoftRaid 8.3. ThunderBay Flex8. All Volumes Disappeared Waking Up - Not A Good Start!

@guitarflex When Disk 7 disappeared, I wonder if it was the primary. That makes the most sense, as then it would have failed over to disk3. A dis...

1 year ago
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RE: New Mac Studio M2. SoftRaid 8.3. ThunderBay Flex8. All Volumes Disappeared Waking Up - Not A Good Start!

@guitarflex To your third post, if you had pulled out one or both of the disks, that could have helped the "failover" to occur. If a disk hangs o...

1 year ago
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RE: New Mac Studio M2. SoftRaid 8.3. ThunderBay Flex8. All Volumes Disappeared Waking Up - Not A Good Start!

@guitarflex What happened was the mirror "failed over", as it was supposed to, when the primary hangs. Its easy to fix, but has to be done manually...

1 year ago
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RE: New Mac Studio M2. SoftRaid 8.3. ThunderBay Flex8. All Volumes Disappeared Waking Up - Not A Good Start!

@guitarflex Volume not unmounting is macOS. Usually time machine, or spotlight. That is why the volume could not unmount, causing the SoftRAID app ...

1 year ago
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RE: Short Flex 8 Question - Mating Cycles Any Real Concern?

@guitarflex We do not have an exact spec, but it can handle thousands of insertions.

1 year ago
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RE: Performance of encrypted APFS RAID5 fixed?

@anonymous-page I am well aware of that.

1 year ago
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RE: Performance of encrypted APFS RAID5 fixed?

@anonymous-page 250 means you are using flash media. With HDD's performance is completely unacceptable. 250 for SSD writes is probably normal, NV...

1 year ago
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RE: macOS can't repair drive(s) on Thunder Bay mini

@wfiveash The problem is they get closed. Also, if bugs cannot be easily reproduced, they are closed. In order to ensure a bug is fixed, we have to...

1 year ago
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RE: Softraid "internal failure" restart message, endless loop

In System Settings/General/login items, is OWC listed?If it is, then "uncheck" itClose System Settings, open again, then reenable it and restart.Does ...

1 year ago
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RE: macOS can't repair drive(s) on Thunder Bay mini

@wfiveash Its been a bug for 15 years. Gotten better, but still exists. I don't know if we have a specific bug that is open.

1 year ago
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RE: macOS can't repair drive(s) on Thunder Bay mini

@wbsmith You can run First Aid, but it is useless, IMO Only Disk Warrior can rebuild an HFS directory. I rebuild my volumes about monthly, depe...

1 year ago
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