Last seen: Sep 30, 2026
Follow-up for anyone watching this thread. After SoftRAID 9, my ThunderBay RAID 5 volumes have been effectively unusable for about two weeks. SoftRA...
You asked why I did not renew SoftRAID Premium — here is the direct answer, grounded in our prior forum history.I did not renew because I purchased OW...
@softraid-support Clarifying the actual situation, since there seems to be confusion: Current status: The volumes mount, but they're in Safeguard ...
Is there any way to get support? System: M1 Mac Studio Ultra macOS 26.7 SoftRAID 9.02 Hardware: Two OWC ThunderBay encl...
@softraid-support IIt may be Apple's problem to solve and I'm not disputing that. However, I have eight Thunderbolt 4 hard drives connected, and unfor...
I'm on 15.7.3 and sadly it's still happening albeit not as bad as it used to be. Hence from having my Mac running 24-7 for the past 26 years or so, I ...
Yep, issue also came back for me on a M1 MacStudio Ultra 15.6. This stuff is going on for way too long. Switch to a 10 GbE NAS and the problem is gone...
Just a quick follow-up: I went ahead and swapped the hard drives around as suggested, but unfortunately, the same issue cropped up again—no improvemen...
@softraid-support Hi again, I went ahead and swapped two of the disks to different bays as suggested, but I'm still seeing the same issue—no chang...
@softraid-support Thanks a lot for clarifying that macOS doesn't have the ability to identify bays/slots in Thunderbolt enclosures—that makes sense ...
@softraid-support Thanks for the detailed response and for clarifying your perspective—it's helpful to understand the philosophy behind SoftRAID's d...
Thanks for your reply, but I feel like we're going in circles here. First of all, you've previously acknowledged that there is an issue with macOS in ...

