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RE: Moving from Catalina to Windows 11

@chobochobo That is about the only Windows trick I can think of. I don't know why your volume would have errors mounting. I can ask around on Monda...

2 years ago
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RE: Softraid 8 license does not persist across login session or system restarts

" I even did a clean MacOS install on a test machine and installed SR8 as the only other software on the machine and it exhibits the same behavior." ...

2 years ago
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RE: Moving from Catalina to Windows 11

@chobochobo If you run Disk Utility, "repair" or "first aid", does it show any errors?

2 years ago
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RE: Moving from Catalina to Windows 11

@chobochobo It appears the volume directory is corrupt. If you have Disk Warrior run it on this volume. If it cannot mount on the Mac, it certainly...

2 years ago
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RE: Thunderbay 4 power up issue

Did it use to in the same setup? Did you check the cables are tightly connected?

2 years ago
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RE: Power Interruption

shut down. Power cycle your enclosure. restart, and if the drives are not showing up, save a SoftRAID tech support file and attach it.

2 years ago
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RE: How to identify failing disk?

There are several ways. Give your disks SoftRAID disk labels. Select them all, add a disk label, and SoftRAID will auto make them all unique. In t...

2 years ago
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RE: Common questions and Answers

@tylerdigital There are two enhancements from our driver acceleration: Reduced CPU usage, especially on Apple Silicon, as the communications from...

2 years ago
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RE: Common questions and Answers

@tylerdigital You really wont see the speed improvements unless you are using a PCI card NVMe card in a Mac Pro. I do not think there is much to ...

2 years ago
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RE: Common questions and Answers

@tylerdigital You will have to manually launch the SoftRAID app for warnings. notifications do not work (including email) You can manage your vol...

2 years ago
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RE: Must have softraid installed to view drive?

On Windows, yes. We do offer a SoftRAID Standard license which is free/no support, so you can mount on any Windows system compatible with your hardwar...

2 years ago
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RE: Performance of encrypted APFS RAID5 fixed?

@seth-goldin Yes I can confirm on Sonoma, there is no improvement. We have special tools to fragment files on volumes. We have submitted a bug fi...

2 years ago
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RE: Replacing Multiple Hard Drives (Rebuild each drive? or Restore from backup?)

Either way, yes. Easiest is probably the backup/restore option, only involves one file copy

2 years ago
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RE: Performance of encrypted APFS RAID5 fixed?

@seth-goldin Its only to set it up. Apparently Apple removed this "feature" in Big Sur, after being setup, it will work fine.

2 years ago
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RE: Performance of encrypted APFS RAID5 fixed?

@seth-goldin Nothing has changed. Defragmentation command still does not do anything. Neither does it address the fundamental issue with APFS of la...

2 years ago
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