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RE: TechTool Pro as a recovery tool?

@smayer97 I wish you would ask Micromat, I don't want to speak on their behalf.

2 years ago
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RE: TechTool Pro as a recovery tool?

@smayer97 Rebuilding an APFS volume from scratch would be extremely difficult, APFS is not even fully documented yet. Only Alsoft was able to do di...

2 years ago
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RE: TechTool Pro as a recovery tool?

TTP essentially runs command line (diskutil first aid) tools on APFS volumes. Disk Warrior was unique, in that it literally built a new directory. T...

2 years ago
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RE: RAID 5 Disc replacement with a larger capacity HD

As long as the Toshiba appears the same size or larger, its no problem. The manual may be cautious, but technically incorrect on that point.

2 years ago
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RE: Does disk order matter?

The disks can be i any order! If your PC cannot format, bring them back to the Mac and "zero disk" 100 sectors.

2 years ago
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RE: Monterey Volume not mounting

@meimjr I highly recommend something like the inexpensive APC R-1200 series. Generally about $100.

2 years ago
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RE: Monterey Volume not mounting

None of those actions have any impact on whether the volume mounts, SoftRAID is always presenting the volume to MacOS for mounting. It appears the i...

2 years ago
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RE: Thunderbay 4 on soft raid 7.6.5 not detected

@scottyblue77 Yes it will work. We have a new SoftRAID version coming in less than a month that will work with your enclosure. You can use this bet...

2 years ago
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RE: RAID 5 Disc replacement with a larger capacity HD

Make sure you are backed up. I recommend you certify the new disk, it will take several days, but ensure your new disk is reliable. You can indeed h...

2 years ago
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RE: Thunderbay 4 on soft raid 7.6.5 not detected

Is this a "hackintosh"? Your System Report is not showing any Thunderbolt devices, they are showing as SATA. If not, then try giving the SoftRAID Ap...

2 years ago
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RE: Confused about driver version

If you update to 7.6.1 (You should), we offer to remove that extra driver. 7.6 will always load in the current Sonoma. MacOS will always determine wha...

2 years ago
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RE: Slow encryption

On RADI 5, you will get 700MB/s writes on an encrypted volume. If that is not enough, try RAID 0, with frequent backups.

2 years ago
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RE: Splitting Mirror Drives correctly

It is safe regardless. Its state is "mirror missing secondary disk". If you feel more comfortabl, use "convert" to make it a non RAID volume. Either w...

2 years ago
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RE: Creating raid 5 volume

Yeah, phones are awkward. Yes that is how it works, when all drives are 12TB, you can "resize" volume to gain the extra space.

2 years ago
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RE: SoftRAID 7.6.1 | RAID 5 volume won't mount | MacOS | No errors

@ozsmac Good luck, it certainly is some hardware issue there. Volumes just do not go kaput so quickly

2 years ago
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