The Bleeding Edge

Jargon alert. A NAS is a network attached storage device. An OOBE is an out of box experience. My rocky experience with the internal and external OWC solid state storage devices has led me to look at network attached storage. In the early aughts, I started with Buffalo and … [Read more...]

I haven't heard back from OWC on the failure/licensing issue with SoftRAID and the Thunderbolt 4 32 TB SSD on which I reported in the last post. Today I experienced a new failure. I rebooted my main workstation, and the OWC PCIe 32 TB Accelsior 8M2 array didn't appear in the File … [Read more...]

I've been using a 32 TB OWC Mercury Pro U.2 Dual SSD array on my image editing laptop for about six months, with SoftRAID to make it striped. It has been sort of flakey; dropping connection between SoftRAID and the disks from time to time, and usually taking a power cycle and a … [Read more...]

Those of you who've been following my experiences with the Dell 7865 will remember that a disk array failed while I was installing another array. The array that failed was an OCW 4M2 Thunderbolt 3 box with 4 Corsair 8 TB M.2 modules, striped under Windows 11 into a 30 TB array. … [Read more...]

The replacement for the OWC 32TB PCIe array arrived, and I sent the first one back to Illinois. I powered down the workstation, removed the external drives, popped the cover (so easy on the model), and installed the new array. I put the skin back on, connected the external … [Read more...]