SteveK
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Joined: May 23, 2017
Last seen: Apr 21, 2025
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RE: Thunderbay 4 RAID stuck on "Preparing 'Time Machine'"

@softraid-support My startup internal SSD is APFS. All 3 of my SSDs are APFS. I just want to know why my Time machine volume died on me and now I ca...

5 years ago
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RE: Thunderbay 4 RAID stuck on "Preparing 'Time Machine'"

I have a late 2015 iMac with an APFS SSD internal. I have two more external SSDs connected and they are APFS. All the drives in my two Thunderbay 4 un...

5 years ago
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RE: Thunderbay 4 RAID stuck on "Preparing 'Time Machine'"

This might have been my fault for updating to the newest beta of Bug Sur. All I know is, whenever I try to choose a SofitRaid RAID 5 volume I created ...

5 years ago
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RE: Thunderbay 4 RAID stuck on "Preparing 'Time Machine'"

Update: The Time Machine preference panel is showing up blank now. I reinstalled the latest version of Big Sur.

5 years ago
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RE: Thunderbay 4 RAID stuck on "Preparing 'Time Machine'"

@softraid-support Thanks for the quick reply, you guys are so great. I literally re-formatted my 4-disk Softraid Tine Machine volume, HFS+. It's b...

5 years ago
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Kernel Panics in Catalina 10.15.4/Thunderbay 4

I can confirm this bug totally hosed my 12TB RAID Time Machine SoftRaid (filled with 9TB of data), but DiskWarrior could not fix it. This is the se...

6 years ago
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Fastest SoftRaid level for a Time Machine volume?

RAID 0 is the fastest RAID, as there is no redundancy (any drive fails, all data is lost). Changing RAID 5 to RAID 0 would give you a speed increas...

7 years ago
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SoftRAID5.5 Kernel Panics

I learned the hard way about mixed RAM. I installed 16GB of Crucial ram—the brand most recommended for Macs—and subsequently got kernel panics multipl...

9 years ago
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