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We have a Thunderbay8 attached to a Mac mini and everything is running great. We have a need to attach the Thunderbay to a windows machine to do a large backup quicker. If I install SoftRaid on the windows machine and plug in the TB8, will Windows try to reformat the TB8 or just be able to read it straight up?
Would I need to use OWC MacDrive 11?
We have been trying to do a backup with the Mac Mini over ethernet and it is not happening fast enough due to the size of the data. We can plug backup drives into a windows machine that won't read on the Mac. So the thought is to move the raid to the Win11 computer and do all of the backup at usb-c speeds.
Posted : 12/12/2025 10:56 am
INstall SoftRAID for Windows and it will just work!
However, you cannot connect a Thunderbolt device to a USB3 (wth USBC) bus.
Why don't the backup drives work on the Mac? If they are NTFS, you just need an NTFS driver.
Posted : 12/12/2025 12:30 pm
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We are trying to backup the TB8 Raid to Azure. Since there is a bandwidth issue with the network, we opted to get Azure Data disks and copy the file to the disks then mail them to Azure to put into the Blob. (sounds good on paper). The disks Azure sent have a proprietary encryption (not bitlocker) and you have to use the MS unlock tool to open them. They have a windows or linux version of this, not macOS. Trying to run it in macOS, it is insisting on x86 and does not like our M2. Rosetta can't fool it either so we can't get the drives to mount to get to the point of ntfs. Now we have the drives on a windows laptop and are smb copying the files over but the 1gb network connection is not optimal. We are guessing the fastest connection would be getting the drives and raid all on the same machine.
Posted : 12/12/2025 1:00 pm
Understand. You need a computer with Thunderbolt, else you need to move the drives into a USBC enclsoure, like our Mercury Elite Quad. They will plug and play either way, as long as you have the SoftRAID driver installed on Windows.
Posted : 12/12/2025 1:49 pm
