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  1. T

    Real world speeds of OWC Mercury Elite Pro Quad RAID 4-Bay Storage Enclosure?

    Can somebody share or link write and read speeds of this box with regular 4-8TB hdd’s in softraid-5? https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MEQCTJB000/
  2. LAHegarty

    LaCie 4big Quadra RAID5 fail.

    One of the drives failed on my LaCie 4big Quadra (4x HDD RAID5 array), I installed a new drive to replace the failed drive everything looked fine then it failed to rebuild, red and blue lights start flashing in an order that's not in the manual! Now it turns on and will not mount... Can I take...
  3. fhturner

    Server RAID5: SAS/SATA vs. NVMe

    Sometimes there are just too many good options... :P I am developing a plan for a Mac Pro server for a client of mine, and have been planning an SSD RAID5 for the main data store. I was liking this pretty cool solution from MaxUpgrades that situates 4 SAS or SATA SSDs in an optical bay, and...
  4. beaudamore

    RAID card convert RAID 5 to RAID 10

    I have an MP 4,1 2009 OSX 10.11.5 HD Setup: 1 X 120gb Intel SSD on PCIE card (named OSX) Apple RAID card 4 X 2TB Western Digital Red drives in RAID 5 (named RED) 1 X 4TB WD USB 3 External HD (on USB 3 PCIE) Time Machine I originally setup my RAID as 5 because I thought I needed that last...
  5. fhturner

    eSATA RAID options for TowerRAID TR8M6G

    So, apparently, Sans Digital is dropping the inclusion of the RocketRAID 642L RAID card w/ their TowerRAID 6G products. I've tried to get a TR8M6G twice now for a client, but they've swapped out the 642L for a RR622. HighPoint does not have drivers or WebGUI for the RR622 for anything beyond Mac...