Understanding Storage and Hard Drives
How to erase and partition drives..
See also: RAID
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2023-07-16 Workaround for the Kernel Panic with M2 Macs: File Sharing via 10 Gigabit Ethernet
2023-05-18 macOS Ventura 13.4 Brings Important Bug Fix for Apple Silicon SoftRAID Users
2023-04-12 SoftRAID 7.5
2022-11-10 macOS Monterey Update 12.6.1 Tends to Kernel Panic Machines Using SoftRAID — Apple XProtect Bug?
2022-06-15 Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra Up And Running
2021-08-26 Can’t Apple Release a macOS that is Reliable?! Kernel Panics
2021-05-11 macOS Big Sur 11.3 Reader Comment: Multiple Issues including Kernel Panics
2020-07-10 OWC Announces SoftRAID for Windows
See also 10 pages at diglloyd.com
2020-01-11 Major Data Loss Today — But Luckily I Had Just Made Several Backups
2019-04-11 Reader Question: eGPU for Photoshop and Lightroom?
2019-01-12 Reader Comment: Hard Drive Bad Sectors, Enterprise vs Consumer Drives
2019-01-11 Reader Comment: Hard Drive Error Rates
2018-07-04 OWC Express 4M2: 4-Slot M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure
2014-08-04 Fault Tolerant Storage for Photographers or Videographers
2014-06-03 Data Loss or Fault Tolerance?
2009-09-12 Snow Leopard kernel panic with mirrored RAID
How to erase and partition drives..
Various types of RAID setups..
Reasons for using software RAID, making the choice of RAID type, etc..
High performance RAID-0, RAID-1, RAID-5, RAID-1+0..
Making software RAID volumes..
Reviews of Thunderbolt products..
High performance with 2.5-inch hard drives or SSDs..
Ultra high flat-line performanc in 40 Terabyte capacity.
Six bay storage solution with RAID-0/1/4/5/10 or non-RAID..
Eight bay storage solution with RAID-0/1/4/5/10 or non-RAID..
2-bay storage solution with hardware RAID options.
Eight bays for HDD, SSD plus PCIe Card and Ports.
Ultra high speed robust pro-grade external SSD..
High performance with hard drives or SSDs..
Three drives in a high-grade enclosure..
High-end computing moves to the iMac form factor..
Special Report: Upgrade Now or Wait?.
When an upgrade brings more downgrades and bugs than value..
Reviews of various hardware and software..
Performance and use..
Outstanding high-capacity enterprise hard drive..
2023-07-16 Workaround for the Kernel Panic with M2 Macs: File Sharing via 10 Gigabit Ethernet
2023-05-18 macOS Ventura 13.4 Brings Important Bug Fix for Apple Silicon SoftRAID Users
2023-04-12 SoftRAID 7.5
2022-11-10 macOS Monterey Update 12.6.1 Tends to Kernel Panic Machines Using SoftRAID — Apple XProtect Bug?
2022-06-15 Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra Up And Running
2021-08-26 Can’t Apple Release a macOS that is Reliable?! Kernel Panics
2021-05-11 macOS Big Sur 11.3 Reader Comment: Multiple Issues including Kernel Panics
2020-07-10 OWC Announces SoftRAID for Windows
2020-05-17 OWC ThunderBay 8: Examples of Various Configurations using SoftRAID
2020-05-11 OWC ThunderBay 8: Installing Hard Drives and SSDs, Plus Info and Specifications
2020-04-17 Why Is My Mac Hanging When Copying Files After Upgrading to macOS Catalina 10.15.4?
2020-01-18 Reader Comments: macOS Catalina vs Mojave, Drive Initialization Hanging/Crashing
2019-12-20 PCIe SSD for Mac Pro and PCs from OWC: “MEET THE FASTEST OWC SSD EVER BUILT – THE ACCELSIOR 4M2”
2019-02-16 When a Hard Drive Fails: Rebuilding a RAID-5 in SoftRAID
2018-11-07 Apple Core Rot is Back with a Vengeance in the Latest Security Update for macOS 10.13.6
2018-09-18 OWC Lauches the Thunderbay 6, a Six-Drive Thunderbolt 3 Enclosure, with RAID Options
2018-09-18 OWC Launches SoftRAID Version 5.7
2018-07-04 OWC Express 4M2: 4-Slot M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure
2018-01-17 SoftRAID Updated to Fix Issue with macOS 10.13 High Sierra
2018-01-17 macOS 10.13.2 and Disk Utility = Atrocious Bug-Ridden Disaster
2018-01-12 Shipping Soon: OWC Thunderbay 4 with Thunderbolt 3, Up to 48TB Capacity
2018-01-09 SoftRAID Issue on the iMac Pro: Keeps Reintalling Driver and Rebooting
2017-11-25 Testing Seagate 12TB Enterprise Capacity 3.5-inch (Helium) Hard Drives
2017-08-29 SoftRAID Warns on Serious High Sierra Bug
2017-08-23 SoftRAID Saves the Day
2017-06-16 SmartAlec for Drive Health Monitoring:
2017-05-23 SoftRAID Updated to Version 5.6
2017-05-03 SmartAlec for Drive Health Monitoring
2017-02-21 SoftRAID Updated to Version 5.5.6
2016-12-29 Even ”Enterprise Grade” Drives Fail
2016-11-23 OWC 40TB Thunderbay 4 Mini SSD
2016-07-19 macOS 10.11.6 Issue with Pegasus?
2016-04-11 OWC Announces SoftRAID 5.5: allows users to convert Apple RAID volumes to SoftRAID
2016-04-05 Thunderbolt on OS X: Spontaneous Drive Disconnect
2015-12-12 Walkthrough: How to make a RAID Stripe Using SoftRAID 5.1
2015-12-04 OWC Most Popular Items
2015-11-19 Disk Utility Has No RAID Support in OS X El Capitan but OWC Has SoftRAID Lite for only $34
2015-11-18 SoftRAID RAID-4 / RAID-5 Performance with Heavy CPU load
2015-11-14 OWC Announces SoftRAID 5.1, and SoftRAID Lite
2015-11-11 REVIEWED: HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8 Hard Drive, Singly and in RAID
2015-10-16 Checking RAID-1 Mirror Status in OS X El Capitan (now that DiskUtility is toast for RAID)
2015-10-08 OS X El Capitan: Disk Utility “designed by morons” design ethic + RAID Support Removed + Wanton Bugs
2015-09-02 OWC Thunderbay can be Partitioned into Multiple RAID-5 Volumes
2015-07-01 OWC Thunderbay 4 RAID Customers: Get your FREE SoftRAID Download
2015-05-22 RAID-5 Can Partitioned
2015-04-07 SoftRAID 5.0.7 Delivers Performance Enhancements
2015-02-02 SoftRAID 5.0.6 Released With Important Fixes
2015-01-29 How Fast Can Eight (8) SSDs go: SoftRAID RAID 1+0 vs RAID 5
2015-01-22 Apple Core Rot: More Views
2014-11-21 Any Kind of RAID is Easy with SoftRAID
2014-11-21 SoftRAID 5.0.5 Released
2014-11-19 OS X Yosemite: Problems From “system cleanup” Software
2014-11-19 OS X Yosemite: Update the SoftRAID Driver
2014-11-19 OS X Yosemite: Apple Kills TRIM for 3rd-Party SSDs, Renders System Unbootable
2014-11-17 OWC Announces ThunderBay Mini: 4-bay Enclosure for 2.5-inch Drives, Thunderbolt v2
2014-10-11 RAID-5 Can Partitioned
2014-08-05 OWC Offers Thunderbay in RAID-5 Edition
2014-08-04 SoftRAID 5 Goes Final: High Performance RAID 5, RAID 1+0, RAID-0, RAID-1
2014-07-29 Fast H.264 Video Compression on the MacBook Pro Beats the 2013 Mac Pro
2014-07-29 RAID 1+0 Fault Tolerance with SoftRAID 5
2014-07-25 Four SSDs in OWC Thunderbay 4 test with RAID-0 and RAID-5
2014-07-11 RAID-0 Scalability with Thunderbolt 2: Separate Bus or Daisy Chain?
2014-07-08 RAID-0 Scalability: 60TB and 12 Hard Drives in Three OWC Thunderbay 4 Enclosures
2014-07-02 60TB here for Testing (OWC Thunderbay 4)
2014-06-30 Reader Questions on SoftRAID
2014-06-08 SoftRAID 5: RAID-5 Can Be One Huge Volume, or Partitioned to Suit
2014-06-08 SoftRAID 5: How it Works (Screen Shots)
2014-06-08 SoftRAID 5: Performance with RAID-0, RAID-5, RAID-1+0
2014-06-03 Awesome: SoftRAID with RAID-5 rebuild
2014-05-28 OWC Thunderbay as RAID-5 or RAID 1+0 Video Storage Solution
2014-01-01 Soft RAID 5 to Offer RAID-5 and RAID 1+0 Fault Tolerance via Software for Any Multi-Drive Setup
2012-11-03 Disk Utility (Fusion Version)— Cannot Handle Two Internal Drives in MacMini
2012-05-23 Update on SoftRAID and Mac OS X 10.7.4 Volume Mounting
2012-05-11 Issue with Mac OS X 10.7.4 and Volume Mounting?
2012-04-04 4TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K4000 Hard Drive for 16TB Inside a Mac Pro
2011-08-14 One Good Reason to use SoftRAID — Predicting Drive Failure
2011-07-23 Software RAID Works on Lion, But Apple Has Broken Basic Functionality
2011-03-13 Making a RAID-1 Mirror with SoftRAID 4