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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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    MP 1,1-5,1 Striped Raid MacPro 4,1 Mojave

    I have a Macpro 4,1 with a Striped RAID of 4x4TB drives = 16GB volume. Beginner with this, used to Windows where if one fails I can add a spare and then remove the bad one but can not find anywhere on how to do this in a mac. Any suggestions?
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    RAID 5 Speed Increase with More or Larger HDDs?

    I've been trying to confirm or deny if a RAID 5 performance increases with more or larger drives. For this discussion, I am referring to HDDs so no SSDs. I recently purchased an 8-bay enclosure and plan to utilize 4, 5 or 6 of the bays for a RAID 5. (1) Is there a performance increase read...
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    How to Backup RAID 5 to an external hard drive

    Hello and thanks for your help! I have a Mac Pro and work off an external RAID 5 array. I would like to backup the RAID array onto an external hardrive to have a copy in a remote location. I am unable to do this in time machine. Suggestions? THanks! Catherine