Yes - All of these are spinning rust.Īctually Drive Genius has quite a few utilities of which defrag is only one. It can be done, technically, but won't actually do anything. And yes - I know defrag on an SSD is totally useless. I haven't run a defrag on a drive in - Well, at least 15 years or more. So much for Drive Genius (version 4).Īgain, I thank each of you for the - SMARTReporter says it is only for internal drives. Both Disk Utility and SoftRaid IDed the drive as "failing". It was, of course, the "failing" drive that was still in the dock. A few hours later Softraid notified me of a failing drive. I left one of the "failing" drives in the dock and got on with some other stuff. I guess it hadn't had time to "check" the drives I took out of the old enclosure and formatted them and ran the the Drive Genius (version 4) utilities. Weird thing - When I bought 2 RAIDs from OWC (thunderbolt Thunderbays from OWC) I got Softraid free.
So - I'll throw them all out and call it a day. Better to get a new Thunderbay if/when I actually need it. No way I want to invest in 4 drives (plus a spare or 2) to find out for sure. But - It requires all drives to be from the same manufacturer, same drive model and even the same firmware which I didn't know when I bought it.
DRIVE GENIUS 4 FOR MAC PRO
It is probable that the old OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 hardware RAID box is OK. No reason to take a chance since the entire lot is suspect.ĥ. That said I'm not sure I want to trust the 2 "good" drives for anything. They were identical drives from the same lot so there was probably a manufacturing issue in that lot. I guess I can see 2 drives failing at the same time. It also showed 2 drives failing but mounted and I got all my data off of them and onto a new RAID enclosure I bought.Ĥ. I had two identical RAID boxes so I took out the drives from the failed RAID and put them in an identical enclosure. It was weird when the RAID failed and refused to even mount. I had not used it before, but figured since I had it I'd check it out.ģ.
DRIVE GENIUS 4 FOR MAC FOR FREE
I got Drive Genius (version 4) for free when I bought the drive so no money lost. I just put it in a closet and was trying to decide what to do with it and the drives this week.Ģ. The drives are from 2011 but were only used for storage.
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