Spotlight/Finder search will not find any results on my RAID volume.

When I add and then remove the volume in the Spotlight exclusions list (System Settings > Spotlight > Search Privacy), suddenly Finder will display the search results.

But this only works for about 20 mins while Spotlight is indexing the volume. Once the indexing is complete, the search feature stops working again.

Device is an OWC 4M2 Express, with 4x 4TB Crucial P3 Plus NVMe drives. Volume is formatted as APFS (Encrypted), RAID-5, optimized for Workstation.

I have also reproduced this behavior on a Monterey 12.x Mac. I’ve tried deleting the Spotlight preference .plist, deleting the “.Spotlight-V100” folder on the root of the volume.

This issue only impacts the OWC RAID volume and does not impact other non-raid external drives.

Please advise, thanks.

I have just upgraded my hardware from iMac 2017 with Ventura to Mac mini M4 pro with Sequoia.

When using my 4-bay OWC enclosure with 4 HDDs in raid5 and Softraid 7.5 with the iMac I have never experienced any issues.

I was very surprised to see when connecting my OWC raid5 system to Mac mini that I was facing HDD spin downs / split ups every minute.

Reading in this forum I learnt that this behavior is a known bug in Monterey. For later macOS revisions I have not seen any further threads in this forum, which matches my experience on my iMac with Ventura, so it looks it was solved with Ventura.

Now the issue pops up again in Sequoia, at least for me since I have not seen any other users raising the issue.

Appreciate any comments whether I am really alone here or dd you guys living with it or found a work around or have I missed anything?

Regards

PeSch