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OWC Thunderblade V4
Can no longer mount the drive. Always been set up as a RAID 0 from factory.
Fortunately I have no important data on it - but it's not letting me do anything. I can't erase, create a new volume etc, and does not mount whatsoever?
Please advise? I just wanted to erase it and create an empty drive.
This topic was modified 7 months ago 2 times by iftibashir
Posted : 17/09/2025 10:50 am
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Posted : 17/09/2025 10:55 am
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Ignore - fixed.
I had to manually format each individual NVMe in Disk Utility. I was then able to open SoftRAID and initialise the drives before creating the RAID array.
Posted : 17/09/2025 11:00 am
@iftibashir
Couple observations:
the volume was apparently erased by Disk Utility or some MacOS process. I have seen such cases. As an EFI volume, SoftRAID cannot erase it. It can also happen if you erase a SoftRAID APFS volume as HFS.
This is also why you cannot easily get rid of the volume, it is "semi mounted" so SoftRAID could not unmount/delete the volume.
You did the correct thing using Disk Utility, one blade at a time.
Posted : 17/09/2025 1:53 pm
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Yes thats exactly what happened. Thank you for the explanation. All sorted ;o)
Posted : 17/09/2025 2:09 pm
