When you attempt to mount it manually, it tries, but never mounts.
Your volume appears in SoftRAID, but does not mount.
If this happens, please let us know and we’ll work with you to get the data necessary to add support for your brand of SSD.SoftRAID beta 6.1 fixes driver loading problem in Big Sur If the SoftRAID application does not show this information it means we’re not able to accurately report TBW data for the particular SSD you are using. If you expand the disk tile of an SSD while running SoftRAID version 5.6.4, you’ll see the TBW for your SSD with the label “total bytes written”.
Help us calculate TBW numbers accurately for different SSDs We want to make this feature as reliable as possible for everyone, no matter what SSD they are using. The way each SSD reports this data is different for each manufacturer sometimes it even alters between different models from the same manufacturer! Since it’s hard for us to know how every single model of every SSD from every manufacturer does its reporting, we’re asking SoftRAID users to help us get the data we need to calculate the TBW numbers accurately for different models of SSD.
So, for the latest release version of SoftRAID 5 (5.6.4), we’ve introduced code to retrieve and display the TBW for SSDs, making it easy to track your SSD usage. We wanted to make it easy for users to see the TBW value for the SSDs they were using, so they could better manage SSD usage and keep below the manufacturer’s threshold for warranty coverage. How would you even know how many bytes that is without having access to the TBW value? Likewise, if your SSD stops working after you’ve had it for only a couple of months, you won’t be able to replace it under warranty if you’ve exceeded the permissable number of bytes written. If you’ve only owned your car for 25 months but have driven 45,000 miles, you can no longer get repairs under warranty. This is just like the warranty for your car which might be 3 years or 36,000 miles, which ever comes first. We wanted to make it easy for users to see the Total Bytes Written value for their SSD. For instance, Samsung now warranties all their SSDs either for a certain number of years, or for a maximum number of terabytes written, whichever comes first. The reason this value matters is that some SSD manufacturers are now including a maximum TBW value in the their warranty terms.
A car’s odometer grows with every mile driven, while the TBW steadily increases with every byte written to the SSD. You can think of the TBW like a car’s ‘odometer’, logging SSD disk usage instead of miles. The TBW measures how many bytes have been written to an SSD since it left the factory. And one feature we really wanted to add to the next SoftRAID version 5 release was the reporting of the TBW (Total Bytes Written) value for SSDs.
By Tim Standing, Vice President of Software Engineering, OWC Holdings Inc.Īlthough we are hard at work on SoftRAID version 6 (which will support APFS) we’re still creating maintenance releases of our currently shipping version, SoftRAID version 5.