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I have some drives I'm trying to bring back in service. One apparently was a Storage Spaces drive. I do not think I have its "pair". I do not care about the data on it. I have tried a half a dozen ways to to format it and start over. Each has failed including using AOMEI to remove...

Ralston18. Just scrolled up and saw your message. Thanks for the comments. I have a few more desperate things to try because setting up a new environment is going to be time consuming and painful but I may have to go there regardless.

Yes. I know better. And I can’t do anything about it now. Any comments on the possibility of restoring environment?

My boot drive is reporting it has raw file system (instead of NTSF in Win 10 Disk Management) and will not boot. I have a spare boot drive so the machine is up but it does not have all of my most current environment. I can see all the files on the bad drive with several disk management...

UPDATE 2 After realizing my extended drives were not cabinet dependent, I deleted the cabinet drivers and reinstalled them. Most of my connection issues are resolved. HOWEVER, when I copy a large number of files (100K+) the system will copy at about 150MB/s but periodically trend to zero then...

UPDATE After I submitted my issue. I realized I could use a couple of empty drive bays in my PC to test whether the extended drives would persist outside of the drive cabinet. I connected them, rebooted the PC and they are fine. No corruption or other issues. I still have the drive cabinet...

My system was intermittently losing the connection between the PC and drive cabinet. It seemed to be overwhelmed when using Capture One, DaVinci Resolve, Affinity Photo etc. using data from a Mediasonic 5 bay drive cabinet connected via eSATA (Rocket Raid). The connection alarm would go...

Update. The Mediasonic is a really nice cabinet. Unfortunately I didn't know USB does not support drive spanning. That was a deal breaker for me and my application so I returned it. BUT, for anyone needing an inexpensive tower and doesn't need to span drives I would recommend it. Also, the...

kerberos_20 you are right about dynamic disks and USB. On the convert first and install them in the tower, I think I tried that and it didn't seem to work. I didn't do any deep troubleshooting so it might have if I had kept working on that as a solution. In the end I returned it and am...

I have a 16T and a 10T drive and want to span them in Win 10 Pro using Disk Manager for (approx) 26T. They are both formatted as NTFS and the partition table is GPT. I go through the Win 10 Disk Management steps to span or stripe them and regardless of what I do I get a Virtual Disk Manager...

Just to round this out. I ordered a Mediasonic. It looks like a decent cabinet for the price. I'll update this at some point in the future after its installed and I've had a chance to see how it performs. Thanks for the input.

Hi Bob, Thanks for the suggestion. It looks like a nice cabinet but I started to look around and found this: https://www.amazon.com/Mediasonic-Type-3-5-inch-Drive-Enclosure/dp/B07G5NZ35Q/ref=sr_1_207?keywords=Direct%2BAttached%2BStorage&qid=1650641475&sr=8-207 Its less and seems like it will...

I am running Win 10 Pro on an Intel Core i7 4770K CPU. I have an external 5 bay SATA cabinet with about 40T (four 10s and some change) and need to expand. I do not need RAID or anything complicated or "stylish". A cabinet with maybe 10 or more bays, fan cooling, a power supply, a few LEDs for...

Thanks for the second vote on spybot and other recommendations. I want to do something externally eventually but don't have the time right now. Since my PC isn't Win 11 compatible I may be giving Linux a spin at some point first to see how hard it is to change OSes.

Thanks I'll give it a try