SteveK
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RE: Freeze/restart only when backing up SoftRAID volumes to SoftRAID Time Machine volume

I've been shutting down my Air at night before bed lately just because I cannot trust my system to sleep properly. However, every time I start it up i...

4 years ago
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RE: Freeze/restart only when backing up SoftRAID volumes to SoftRAID Time Machine volume

@softraid-support I updated to the latest beta and after restart the spindowns became even more frequent and ignored my Drive Alive settings comple...

4 years ago
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RE: Freeze/restart only when backing up SoftRAID volumes to SoftRAID Time Machine volume

@softraid-support Yep. I've never enabled that option. We're talking decades. The new Thunderbolt display has added yet more variables to my issu...

4 years ago
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RE: Freeze/restart only when backing up SoftRAID volumes to SoftRAID Time Machine volume

@softraid-support Wow. Spindowns got worse. Even with Amphetamine's Drive Alive feature writing to my Thunderbays every 10 seconds, it still spins ...

4 years ago
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RE: Freeze/restart only when backing up SoftRAID volumes to SoftRAID Time Machine volume

@softraid-support Always disabled. Never enabled once since the day it was introduced.

4 years ago
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RE: Freeze/restart only when backing up SoftRAID volumes to SoftRAID Time Machine volume

@softraid-support Thanks for checking. It happened again today after waking my system from sleep. So it must be waking up in the middle of the nigh...

4 years ago
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RE: Freeze/restart only when backing up SoftRAID volumes to SoftRAID Time Machine volume

@softraid-support These are the two text documents that were automatically in lured in the panic report with Feedback Assistant. The other three ar...

4 years ago
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RE: Freeze/restart only when backing up SoftRAID volumes to SoftRAID Time Machine volume

@softraid-support I installed the macOS 12.4 public beta which has seemed to resolve my ThunderBay spin down issues. Freakin' huzzah. No crashes wh...

4 years ago
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RE: Freeze/restart only when backing up SoftRAID volumes to SoftRAID Time Machine volume

@softraid-support That was just a lame joke ;) I installed the 12.4 public beta today and all Thunderbolt drive spindowns have ceased. I've also ...

4 years ago
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RE: Freeze/restart only when backing up SoftRAID volumes to SoftRAID Time Machine volume

@softraid-support Yep, that has to be it. I'm connected directly to the display with a Thunderbolt cable. The other port on my Air is for the Thund...

4 years ago
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RE: Freeze/restart only when backing up SoftRAID volumes to SoftRAID Time Machine volume

@softraid-support Another restart this morning while building a new Plex library from videos started on Media volume plus hourly CCC backups. Send ...

4 years ago
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RE: Freeze/restart only when backing up SoftRAID volumes to SoftRAID Time Machine volume

@softraid-support Nope, the Backup RAID 5 volume is HFS because I'm now using Carbon Copy Cloner for all SoftRAID stuff. I learned the hard way Tim...

4 years ago
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RE: Freeze/restart only when backing up SoftRAID volumes to SoftRAID Time Machine volume

@softraid-support Got it, thanks.I used CCC to back up my large SR Media volume to my SR Backup volume, from scratch, overnight. Looks like it comp...

4 years ago
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RE: Freeze/restart only when backing up SoftRAID volumes to SoftRAID Time Machine volume

@softraid-support Apologies for the confusion. OWC Drive Dock is the actual product name of the external drive enclosure I got years ago on clearan...

4 years ago
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