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I'm on a 5k iMac with a 6TB RAID5 via Thunderbolt through a OWC Thunderbolt 2 Dock and a OWC Thunderbay RAID controlled by SoftRAID 5.1. I recently upgraded to El Capitan from Yosemite. I mention this because while typing this I launched softRAID and it prompted me for a driver update. Which I did. Rebooted and still not fixed. I also realized the serial needed to be re-entered and that appears to have worked fine. I have been using the rig for a fair amount of time on El Capitan without the serial re-entered. I'm not sure if this is somehow part of the problem.
I was clearing some space for a new project and moved a 350-/+GB FCPX Library to a separate 4TB drive. Now I can't be 100% sure about this but I swear there was a couple of hundred gigs free on the RAID. I confirmed the Library moved the way I wanted it to and tossed the old one in the trash. I emptied the trash expecting to now have 500+GB of free space on the RAID. To my surprise I had 145GB free. Double checked a few things. I rebooted and it was no different. I ran CleanMyMac's system junk and trash bins utility. Nothing. I searched for the old library on the RAID and it was as expected not there.
Now I may be imagining the idea that the drive actually shrank but it certainly didn't give me 350GB more space. I've been using Mac's for over 15 years and this rig for well over a year. I can't recall ever having this happen. Any ideas?
SoftRAID is something that I am not super well versed with but it's not given me any issues in the year that I've been using it. It states "no errors" now. I also deleted a smaller 25GB Library and that disappeared as expected.
Is there anything I can do with softRAID or otherwise to figure this out?
Posted : 19/03/2016 10:41 pm
This is not a SoftRAID issue. SoftRAID creates containers called volumes. What happens inside a SoftRAID volume is the same as inside any Apple DU volume, Apple Disk Utility volume, etc.
There is a bug I have seen in El Capitan where the file system grows even when I delete files. Its very noticable on 16GB/32GB thumbdrives!
I would bet it is a temp file, cache file, etc. I remember Disk Warrior did not fix this the last time I saw it, I don't remember what did, perhaps Onyx?
I assume you restarted?
Posted : 20/03/2016 12:02 am
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This is not a SoftRAID issue. SoftRAID creates containers called volumes. What happens inside a SoftRAID volume is the same as inside any Apple DU volume, Apple Disk Utility volume, etc.
There is a bug I have seen in El Capitan where the file system grows even when I delete files. Its very noticable on 16GB/32GB thumbdrives!
I would bet it is a temp file, cache file, etc. I remember Disk Warrior did not fix this the last time I saw it, I don't remember what did, perhaps Onyx?
I assume you restarted?
Thanks. I did reboot a few times and so far it hasn't helped. I ran CleanMyMac but can try Onyx or otherwise as well. Maybe I'll look for hidden files too. I've been on El Capitan on my Macbook since it was released. I've been on it on my iMac for at least a month. Maybe two. I don't think I've notice it. Hopefully it is figured out by Apple.
Any info welcomed.
Posted : 20/03/2016 8:17 am
