The Bleeding Edge

The SSD-only NAS turned out to be unreliable. See the previous post for the gory details. I decided to try to build a hybrid system. I got 5 20 TB Toshiba enterprise spinning rust disks and a few SanDisk 3D 4TB SSDs. I took the Samsung SSDs out of the NAS and installed the … [Read more...]

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...]