I highly recommend these as a DAS solution. Regardless, the issue supposedly raised its ugly head in something like 1 or 2 percent of Macs. That was a couple years ago and I don't know if it remains. Support told me that they were working with Apple to resolve it but that the issue was with Apple (not sure this is true or not).
#Softraid 6 xt mac#
I know because at one point I tried to hook the enclosure to an older mac mini I had lying around and it suffered from this. Drives mysteriously unmounted after a short period of time (30 min to an hour or two). ONLY PROBLEM I'VE SEEN or HEARD ABOUT: There were strange combinations of machines and Thunderbays which just didn't work. I don't believe TB3 adds any speed to the enclosure as the bottle neck is really drive speed anyway and TB2 is faster than it needs to be. The Six bay is brand new and looks great.
Speed is quite good (I'm happy to run a Blackmagic speedtest if you like). I'm currently running RAID 1+0 (I have four 5TB drives yielding 10TB of usable RAID10 space). They support a bunch of RAID configurations and their app gives me a nice "healthcheck" sort of dashboard. They issue updates periodically which a lot of the HW Raids do not. it takes barely any CPU at all to run and just works. It was originally hooked to a 2012 Mini and is now hooked to a 2017 imac 5k with a TB3 to TB2 adapter. I have a 4-bay Thunderbay Thunderbolt 2 version and have been running it for maybe two or three years. Question (finally!): Has anyone here used the earlier OWC ThunderBay boxes and what were your experiences? The drives I will be using are 10TB HGST He10.
#Softraid 6 xt plus#
On the plus side ARECA appears to be very heavy enterprise level equipment and is well respected.Īt Lloyd Chambers recommendation I am now also looking at the OWC ThunderBay 6, Also a six bay box which uses SoftRaid as a RAID controller and can set it up for RAID 6. This being a hardware RAID I have been advised that all of the drives have to match.
I have also looked at the Areca 8050U3-6, a 6 bay Thunderbolt 3 box which is a hardware RAID solution. So far I have been considering a Drobo 5D3 (I know the horror stories some people have had with Drobo's "bricking", but I haven't had any of those problems and am currently using a 5 year old 5D and I am not getting the speed I'd like even though i have 128gb MSATA in the cache bay and 7200rpm drives.) I like that like the 5D I can set up the 5D3 with dual drive redundancy (Drobo's version of RAID 6) and swap out smaller capacity driives for larger ones as the need arises. Preface: I am deep into my search for a new DAS (not NAS) mass storage unit.
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