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| In a Mac Pro, the SSDs are seen as external drives, how do I prevent accidental ejects? | Feb-14-23 |
| There is no provision in macOS to make SSDs on a PCIe card to appear as internal and non-ejectable. If you want to prevent accidental ejection, open a file on the volume with Text Edit, which will prevent macOS from ejecting the volume, because a file will be in use by Text Edit. |
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| How do I configure RAID under Windows 10? | Feb-14-23 |
| 1. In the Windows search box, type "Storage Spaces".
2. Select Create a new pool and storage space. Windows will check all eligible volumes and list them in the next window.
3. Select the SSDs you want to include in the RAID and click Create Pool.
Warning: All data on the drives you select will be erased, so back up any important data before continuing!
4. After creating a pool, you'll be prompted to configure your new storage space. Type a name for the storage space and select a drive letter. The storage space will appear with this name and drive letter in Windows. You can select either the standard Windows NTFS file system or ReFS, the new resilient file system. If you'll be using mirroring or parity to protect against data loss, we recommend choosing ReFS for its file integrity protection features.
5. Choose a resiliency type. Select Simple (no resiliency) for a large RAID 0 pool of storage that combines the speed of the included SSDs, but offers no protection from a single SSD failure. Select Two-way mirror (RAID 1) to store two copies of your data across two SSDs, or select Three-way mirror (RAID 1) to store three copies of your data across three SSDs. Select Parity (RAID 5) to be protected from a single SSD failure across 4 SSDs. Parity will offer protection with increased size (3/4 of the combined SSD size), but a parity space is noticeably slower than the other options.
6. Choose the size of your storage space. The default will be the maximum available amount of storage you have, which will vary depending on the type of space you create. SImple maximum should be a sum of the sizes of the included SSDs. Mirror should should show the size of a single SSD. Parity should show the combined size of three (of four) SSDs.
7. Select Create storage space when you are done configuring your storage space.
8. The storage space you created will appear as a standard drive under This PC, with the name and drive letter you configured. It appears no different from a normal, physical drive to Windows and the desktop programs you use. |
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1073 | 
| How do I configure RAID under macOS? | Feb-14-23 |
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1077 |
| Programming SSDs to 4k Block Size for Compatibility With macOS 10.13.6 | Feb-08-23 |
| macOS 10.14.6 supports both 512 and 4k block size SSDs, but macOS 10.13.6 supports only 4k block size SSDs. Today, most SSDs are shipped from the factory programmed with a 4k block size. If your SSDs are programmed with 512 block size, however, and you need to be compatible with macOS 10.13.6, you must reprogram your SSDs to a 4k block size. Sonnet has written a script to do this, but it needs to be run on a Linux computer. You can download the instructions here. For a copy of the script, contact support@sonnettech.com. |
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1122 |
| Thunderbolt 3 NVMe volumes may experience a stop error under Windows 10 version 20H2 | Feb-14-23 |
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| How can I use my new SSD volume to hold my user folder on macOS? | Feb-14-23 |
| 1) Make a backup of the user folder
2) Copy the user folder to the SSD volume.
3) In System Preferences, open Users & Groups.
4) Unlock.
5) Right-Click on the user you moved to the SSD volume and select Advanced Options
6) Point the Home Directory to the user folder on the SSD volume. |
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| The Write performance of my SSD is very slow under Windows. | Feb-14-23 |
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