@softraid-support I purchased DriveDX last night for $20 and checked out all 8 HDDs; all were OK but 4 had slower spinup times and lower throughputs. ...

@softraid-support Even if those enterprise drives are rated at 2 million hours MTBF? I tried validating that volume. I forgot to turn off my schedul...

I tried a different cable and my other Thunderbay; no difference. So I would guess I need to replace one of the older drives, see how it runs, then re...

@softraid-support About 45 minutes ago the estimate went up to 180 hours. Two of my drives are 6 years old with nearly 60,000 hours on them. I gues...

@softraid-support It's set for workstation, 16k stripe. The slowdowns just started happening recently. I've been using this volume for years without ...

It's a 12TB RAID5 volume. It has 3.6TB free. It's filled with lots of H.265 and H.264 movies and DVR recordings (but nothing records directly to this ...

OK, I let each one verify for about at least one minute and took a screenshot of right around its highest read speeds. When cancelling each verificati...

@softraid-support I thought so too! They’re HFS, non-encrypted. I’ll try your suggestion as soon as I can and report back. Thanks again.

@softraid-support Thanks. Here's what I got. No Time Machine, not indexing, Plex not running, no other apps running except some menu bar stuff like De...

@softraid-support That was easy, thanks. I waited 10 minutes or so to let it finish all activity and I checked to make sure it wasn't indexing then ...

@softraid-support Yes it can still mount. It just throws up a lot of warnings about errors, failing disks, etc., so I thought I should keep it unmount...

@softraid-support Here you go.

@softraid-support I opened a case: 02084913. Here's the file. The ThunderBay in question was not powered on or mounted; if it needs to be I can connec...

Thank you. I can email a tech support report to you, do you mind?