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RE: Move Thunderbay8 from Mac to Windows

@ahadub Understand. You need a computer with Thunderbolt, else you need to move the drives into a USBC enclsoure, like our Mercury Elite Quad. They...

4 months ago
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RE: Move Thunderbay8 from Mac to Windows

INstall SoftRAID for Windows and it will just work! However, you cannot connect a Thunderbolt device to a USB3 (wth USBC) bus. Why don't the backu...

4 months ago
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RE: Computer crashing immediatly after launching SoftRAID 8 installation

What MacOS version is this?Could it be the Akitio drives crashing with the SMART check?

5 months ago
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RE: You have reached maximum number of allowed orders in 1 hours. Please try again later.

@yaron-kyiv We do not have active support for SoftRAID 5 and do not have upgrade coupons any longer, its been too many years.Generally, you need to...

5 months ago
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RE: You have reached maximum number of allowed orders in 1 hours. Please try again later.

@yaron-kyiv SoftRAID 5.x licenses are no longer supported. They work, up until 10.15, but not after. And the number of characters changed, so un...

5 months ago
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RE: Soft Raid Icon on Screen

@ken For some reason, we cannot reproduce it in development. You running the latest version of SoftRAID?

5 months ago
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RE: You have reached maximum number of allowed orders in 1 hours. Please try again later.

Where are you seeing this "exceeded downloads" error? Can you send the page link?

5 months ago
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RE: You have reached maximum number of allowed orders in 1 hours. Please try again later.

SoftRAID 5 cannot launch in newer versions of MacOS. You need to upgrade to SoftRAID 8. If all you are doing is "checking", you can use SoftRAID Sta...

5 months ago
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RE: invalid serial number error on website

@calbear88 I checked also, and it is OK.

5 months ago
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RE: Disk Churning

@bkdad BTW: One reason this happens is unclean shutdowns, and when disks are "ejected" without being unmounted. Does your system suffer from your dr...

5 months ago
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RE: Disk Churning

@bkdad Apparently this kind of script is very common in post production environments.ChatGPT can help you write a custom script in a few minutes. I...

5 months ago
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RE: Shutdown/reboot hanging with OWC ThunderBay 4/SoftRAID 8.6.1 on Windows 11

I note that you filed another support form, which was taken up. I asked the Customer Service rep to let me know on the resolution, so I can post it he...

5 months ago
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RE: Windows 11 write speeds survey for raid 5

@nanashi Let me see if we can tweak settings. We "hid" the SoftRAID support files for user privacy, but it had the unintended effect of not allowin...

5 months ago
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