@ozsmac Sele3ct all 4, so they go at the same time. Plenty of bandiwdth on Thunderbolt for that.

@smayer97 I certify all flash media also. yes, they are set to reallocate many blocks constantly, but they can also ship with defects. for eample, ...

@ozsmac validate does not "find" anything. (unless a disk cannot be read) On flash media, there will always be many updated parity blocks. Only HDD...

I have seen issues with Crucial blades on MacOS, maybe that was this causing it. the directory is damaged is what happened. You are going to have to...

@dmetz I tested on a 2019 Mac Pro, where I discovered Big Sur has TRIM enabled by default, Vantura/Monterey/Sonoma do not. More data on this is, of...

@spyro70 We recommend 3 passes, but yes you can do two passes. It will write a pattern read it, then write zero's, and read it back.

@dmetz In digging, it appears in Monterey, was when TRIM was disabled again. I never noticed, as I almost exclusively test with NVMe or HDD's not S...

@dmetz Guess what? I just reproduced this on SATA. Apparently, while TRIM is always enabled on NVMe, it is not on SSD. Without some research I do n...

@spyro70 You selected a volume, not the disk. Certify is a disk function, not a volume function. It zeros all data on the disk. A validate is good ...

@wfiveash You should be able to, yes.

@spyro70 Yes. You need to select the disk you are going to certify first.

@dmetz TRIM is on by default now in MacOS. All SoftRAID disks will support TRIM, if available. Go ahead and enable it, I do not know why it is not ...

@dmetz TRIM is on by default now in MacOS. All SoftRAID disks will support TRIM, if available.

@wfiveash "Best Practices" say unmount/disconnect. Thunderbolt does support hot swap, but in the video we are promoting best practices.

@dabee SoftRAID utilities menu. then I can see exactly what your situation is.