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SOFTRAID TECHTOOL COMPATIBILTIY SOFTWARE

Includes SoftRAID: robust software for creating, monitoring, and managing advanced RAID setsД¬reate a data centre: daisy-chain six units together for up to 768TB of capacityДeployment ready: preconfigured solutions undergo rigorous multi-hour drive burn-in Massive capacity: store up to 144TB of critical footage, images, and filesД®ight hot-swappable universal drive bays: mix or match 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch HDDs and SSDs (no adapter needed) Pro-grade transfer speeds: up to 2,586MB/s real-world-tested speed with Thunderbolt 3 (Thunderbolt 2/Thunderbolt backwards compatible)

Photo, film and video editors can take advantage of the largest capacity desktop RAID storage solution weвЂ™ve ever offered to handle the voracious drive space appetite of RAW, 4K, large format, and VR workflows. The ThunderBay 8 is like a high-performance personal data centre that offers multiple configuration options to suit ever-expanding storage needs. The ThunderBay 8 offers eight drive bays for either 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch HDDs or SSDs in any combination for up to 144TB of capacity. There were a number of options but again I wasnвЂ™t confident that they would work reliably. Having established I needed a Thunderbolt 3 or USB 3 enclosure with at least 7 slots, I turned to 2 well-known computer supply companies here in the UK as well as looking at what was available on Amazon. So all in all I needed an enclosure that could accommodate at least 7 drives, and to handle a mix of 2.5вЂќ SSDs and 3.5вЂќ spinning rust drives. Lastly I retained my Angelbird SSD and repurposed it as my backup boot drive. My 8TB Time Machine drive was the drive that was failing so I took the opportunity to replace to with a 12 TB Toshiba spinning rust drive. My 4TB Western Digital Work Drive became a Crucial MX500 2TB drive and I chose to retain my 8TB Backup drive as I had only recently replaced it and as a backup/archive drive, it wasnвЂ™t necessary to pay the SSD premium for an 8TB drive. Looking at my SSD drive collection I decided to split the contents of Storage 2 into 3 SSD drivesвЂ¦ In reviewing my use of my drives, Storage 2 was a case of too many eggs in one basket, as what had started out as a Samples and Sound Effects storage drive had grown into a video media drive as well. Over successive Black Friday and other sales, I have been collecting SSD drives when they came up for silly prices to the extent that I had 2 x 2TB and 2 x1TB SSD drives from Crucial and Samsung.

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All my other drives were spinning rust drives, at least one of which was coming to the end of its life, as I was getting reminders from Tech Tool Pro that there were too many bad blocks. What it showed is that the only SSDs I had were my Angelbird boot drive and my Crucial 512GB SSD backup boot drive.

I then did a review of all my drives, what was on each of them, what I was using them for and how long I had them for.

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So the eSATA chassis would have to go and I would need to replace it with something I could connect directly to the Mac mini, via USB-c, which meant it could be either Thunderbolt 3 or USB-3. I did look at some esata adaptors or converting the unit to Thunderbolt or USB but following extensive research, I was not confident it would all work reliably. My first idea was to retain the 5 slot drive bay, after all, it was working fine, but the problem is that it depended on having an eSATA card in a PCIe slot, which I wouldnвЂ™t have in the Mac mini. There had been more drives in here in previous iterations of my set up but several rationalisations had slimmed down the number of drives in this chassis. This was to provide a copy of the previous version of the drive when I undertook an OS upgrade.

SSD Backup Drive - This was a 1TB spinning rust drive split into two partitions so that I had a further backup of my boot drives. Then I had an external eSATA connected 5 slot drive bay, which was home for some more drives.Д«ackup Drive 8TB - This is where I put safety copies of audio and video projects Storage 2 3TB - This drive started out as the drives on which my sound effects library and samples were kept, but it also became where all my video projects were kept tooД¬rucial 512GB SSD which was a clone of the Angelbird so I always had a working clone of my boot drive in case it failed, a practice I developed when all my drives were spinning rust drives. Work Drive 4TB - This is where my working Pro Tools Projects reside In my cheese-grater, I had 5 drives, 4 in the bays in the Mac Pro and one in the spare slot under the DVD drive (remember those). In replacing my Mac Pro 5,1, which has graced my computer cupboard since 2012, when I last changed Pro Tools computers for a Mac mini 2018, one of the challenges I needed to resolve was what to do with all my hard drives.

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