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    (Resolved) OWC ThunderBay 8 RAID 5 Kernel Panics on Silicon Macs when using DaVinci Resolve

    TLDR: DO NOT BUY the OWC Thurderbay 8. When simply viewing footage in a timeline in DaVinci Resolve, this raid and it's software SOFTRAID causes silicon macs kernel panics and pink screens forcing hard restarts. When brining this to OWC's attention, they told me they had never heard of this...
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    • b&h photo davinci resolve kernal panics mac os monterey mac os ventura owc raid 5 softraid
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: macOS
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    Photo Storage - OWC Thunderbay 4 with SoftRAID in RAID5 but now facing yearly 'upgrade' fees - alternatives???

    Have had an OWC Thunderbay 4 since 2015 working well with SoftRAID. I upgraded to 4x8TB HGST drives in 2017 and am getting about 450 MB/s read/write. I have this attached to a 14" M1 Macbook Pro to store 6 TB of photos and other assorted files. I paid $100 for the upgrade of SoftRAID in April...
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    • external enclosure owc softraid thunderbay
    • Replies: 19
    • Forum: Photography
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    Time Machine no longer working for me: replace with Carbon Copy Cloner or Chronosync or ?

    TLDR: I can no longer trust Time Machine and need a recommendation for a replacement that does the exact same thing; scheduled incremental backups of multiple volumes that keep as many older daily, weekly and monthly versions as the volume can hold, with automatic pruning, simple browsing of...
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    • apfs backup carbon copy cloner chronosync hfs incremental snapshots softraid time macine
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: Mac Apps
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    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/
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    Trying to build a cMP (5,1) to reach 14,000 MB/s - need info on architecture constraints?

    Can someone (please) direct me to a cMP (5,1) i/o architecture schematic I've seen somewhere on this site which will help me calculate maximum IO throughput ceilings as defined by the architecture and not the visible IO interface technologies (FW ports, SATA interfaces and PCIE slots) which I...
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    • amfeltec squid backplane firewire external enclosure highpoint 7101a softraid
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Mac Pro
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    OWC Express M42 - Speed seems slow on TB3

    CORRECTION: OWC Express 4M2! Hi, speed tests via Aja attached. Shouldn't the Thunderbolt 3 (MBP 14,3) speeds be faster? We were hoping to get closer to 2500 MBps. - macOS Mojave 10.14.2 - OWC Express 4M2 - 4x Samsung 970 EVO 256GB SSD - Dedicated bus - SoftRAID configured RAID 0 - Mac Pro 6,1...
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    • aja express 4m2 mac pro 6.1 macos mojave mbp 4.3 owc raid 0 samsung 970 evo softraid thunderbolt
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: macOS Mojave (10.14)
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    Software RAID using JBOD enclosure?

    Hi all, I'm considering setting up a RAID0 system, using 3 / 4 disks, through a combination of a JBOD enclosure and software RAID, either MacOS's own software or SoftRAID. Would any of you have insights concerning the following? 1 Am I correct to I believe you can use any JBOD enclosure...
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    Newb here. help with mac mini

    Greetings all. I have a used mac mini (few years old, shipped with maverics) that I am trying to play with and use at home in my spare time. It was used as a server and has softraid on it. When booting into recovery mode and opening disk utility (I see softraid media listed as main partition)...
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