![]() ![]() ![]() #Mac backup guru for sierra installOnce I had the SSDs and enclosure, it was just a few minutes work to install the drives and get ready to shut my old Pegasus down, ready for replacement. I opted to turn three of those SSDs into a single striped array (RAID level 0) using SoftRAID XT, a product which I had already relied on in the past. The current model seems pretty omnivorous. I did have one heart-stopping moment just after I’d ordered the enclosure: I downloaded the ThunderBay user guide, only to read there that it was incompatible with Samsung 860 EVO SSDs, but a little investigation showed that had only applied to early versions which had shipped in 2018. ![]() Then I ordered the enclosure and another two SSDs, with the fourth due on Monday. In a bid to fool myself into believing that this wasn’t really going to cost me $/€/£ 1500, I quietly bought the first SSD late last year. Indeed, what should have been a seamless transition has turned into a bit of a mess: it’s still not really up and running in the way I had intended.Īfter mulling this over and discussing it here, I decided to move my backups onto an OWC ThunderBay 4 (Thunderbolt 3) containing 2 TB Samsung 860 EVO SSDs. I’ve sort of replaced it with an SSD RAID, but it’s only sort of as Time Machine has now stopped working. Last week I finally retired my 8 year-old Promise Pegasus RAID system, which has steadfastly stored my Time Machine backups on a succession of hard disks over those years. ![]()
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