Using Mac OS on a M1 mac studio, running sonoma. I own TWO OWC thunderbays (4 bay size) thunderbolt 3 models. I use them for video editing. I'm currently cutting a short film, upgraded avid media composer to 2024.12, and all of a sudden i'm having tons of permissions issues saving the avid project that lock me out of use. I worked with avid to try to nail down an issue and it seems to be falling on my storage!
I moved the project and media over to my other OWC thunderbay and the problems completely went away. So there is something wrong with one of my OWC raid's i think.... I tried running first aid in disk utility which doesn't work. that makes sense since softraid is running it. I am looking around for something like mac OS'es disk utiliy FIRST AID function to fix simple issues that sometimes occur on drives. All the options seem to be more intensive like validate which i think goes through the entire hard drive.
I'm afraid i'm going to have to pull everything off this massive raid, fully certify / validate etc and RE-COPY stuff back on?
Avid mentioned it might be fragmentation on my storage... I do over time blow away massive files from old feature films / short films that are TBs of data and I blow it away and keep using the raid. Is there some kind of defrag type of function on softraid?
Thanks in advance!
SoftRAID is not a file system driver. We do not manage anything inside the volume. Disk Utility First Aid can be used on SoftRAID voliumes, although it is pretty useless. For HFS Volumes, Disk Warrior is outstanding.
If you get ownerships/permissions issues, make sure in get info on the volume, "ignore ownerships" is checked and "make all permissions like this one" option is set.
Validate does not touch the file system either, it just reads from the volume and updates parity blocks if any need updating. No impact on files at all.
You should never need to recertify an HDD. If it has issues, you will see things like "reallocated sectors", etc, so you know to replace teh drive.
Try Disk Warrior if your volumes are HFS. Its excellent for optimizing the volume directory.

