I currently run flame using the SanDisk Professional PRO-BLADE STATION 16 TB. Unfortunately, the storage is parsed out between 4 drives, so it’s more like having 4TBX4. I’m finding it to be relatively slow. Does anyone have a drive they’re happy with? Are we all switching to a cloud-based storage so…

I recommend using the apple disk utility to make the raid. I had a terrible experience with SoftRaid.

Keeps us warm in winter.. haha.. I was actually considering to mount a small (silent) fan on top of it.

I was looking into what nice shared storage options there are these days… san but not san.. but quickly found the ‘old’ vendors and their vendor-locking sheninagans had not gone away. Would be nice if there was some NVMeOF way (or similar) of building such storage ourselves..

[image] SamE: I recommend using the apple disk utility to make the raid. I had a terrible experience with SoftRaid. Strong recommend

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I used use the apple raid - then switched to the soft raid - seems ok. havent had any issues, whats the problems? should I switch back?

It was a while ago and my memory is a bit hazy, but I think it was hassling for updates and generally being high maintenance. Then also the problem was, I needed to plug the raid in to another Mac and it won’t see it unless you install soft raid. So nothing critical, but I just find Apple raid to ha…

Ah ok. Nothing major then. I will rebuild them apple style when I have a spare day!

I made a raid5 of 4 SSDs with SoftRaid that shit the bed the first time the Mac crashed. The rebuild took a day, but failed. Then data recovery took another day. This was in the middle of a project. I will never use it again.

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