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RE: Fastest Route to Expand?

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 07:49:52 +0000

Thanks for your amazing feedback.

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SoftRAID Support — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 19:03:41 +0000

First, good news. 5.8 we believe fixes this Application quit issue, and it should be released in the next day or so. 1. Yes 2. the command line is sparse. We are going to improve it. You get a notification if it failed, not if it passes. 3. There is no partition map on the disks, they are effectively "new". So they have a ? and no icon. Initialize them to start using them. 4. Yes, they are ready to use now. As long as they are connected to a bus that supports SMART, the power on hours will be accurate.

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sjmagy — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:10:11 +0000

Hi. I have some questions: 1) If the terminal window has returned to the prompt ("ComputerName:~ username$"), I assume that the certification has completed. Yes? 2) How do I know if they passed certification? There is nothing in the Terminal window to indicate success OR failure. 3) I haven't restarted my computer yet, but why, after this terminal-based certification process has (apparently?) completed, does each disk show in the Softraid application with a yellow question mark over its icon instead of the blue Softraid icon like it had before I started the terminal-based certification? It's like they are no longer "Initialized" (which I did before launching certification)? Is this normal? 4) Can I re-Initialize & create volumes now and they will be fine / retain data (hours of use, etc)? Thank you.

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SoftRAID Support — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 16:51:47 +0000

User is correct. You need to open a new terminal window for each disk. My mistake.

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SoftRAID Support — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 12:47:57 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, I will look into this. I am sure I have certified disks with one command. I am travelling though this week.

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sjmagy — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 05:52:09 +0000

Hi. Uh, the terminal command doesn't work as stated. I entered: sudo softraidtool disk disk0 disk5 disk6 disk7 disk8 disk9 disk10 disk11 disk12 certify 3 (since the help page says sudo is required) and after entering my password I get: SoftRAIDTool error: unrecognized command - "disk5" I searched the forums and found that the apparent answer is, open 9 Terminal tabs and run separate commands in each, 1 per disk. Just wanted to report that here in case someone else comes along and actually reads this thread.

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sjmagy — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 17:43:35 +0000

Great, thank you!!

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SoftRAID Support — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 20:09:47 +0000

So it if my 6 new drives have "disk identifier" of disk12 through disk17, the terminal command would be: softraid disk disk12 disk13 disk14 disk15 disk16 disk17 certify 3 Exactly cor...

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SoftRAID Support — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 20:08:45 +0000

I don't think the new Mac Pro will "suck". ;-) There should be no problem with an Apple 3/2 adapter. Drives will certify just fine.

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sjmagy — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 19:59:35 +0000

Additional question, after reading of troubles with someone using a Dock with the ThunderBay 6 -- I'm still on a 2013 "trash can" Mac Pro, which only has Thunderbolt 2. I was going to use the Apple adapter for ThunderBolt 2 to 3, to connect to the ThunderBay 6 (I'm waiting to upgrade my computer until Apple releases pro-hardware that doesn't suck). Is there a significant chance the Thunderbolt 2-to-3 adapter would be problematic for the disk certification process to complete on 6 14TB drives (similar to difficulties encountered by user rsths12 in their September 14 post https://srforums.wpengine.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1161 )??