Creative COW | Matt Riley | Activity https://creativecow.net/members/mattriley/activity/ Activity feed for Matt Riley. Thu, 14 May 2026 16:59:45 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.5.10 en-US 30 hourly 2 19912527be7166de9c0b6e77263bd568 Matt Riley replied to the discussion Active Storage ActiveRAID super slow writes in the forum Storage & Archiving https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/active-storage-activeraid-super-slow-writes/#post-2475812 Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:20:19 +0000 Reply to Active Storage ActiveRAID super slow writes

After a hint from posting on Reddit as well… It was… The controller batteries!

The batteries displayed a status of “not charging” so I figured they were shot because they are so old. No big deal, I thought. It knows about the status so it should ignore them or whatever. But, after reading a reply on Reddit, I decided to dig into the cli tool…

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]]> b18fc219611fbecea8fd3ab1cb9d9862 Matt Riley replied to the discussion ActiveRAID - how to clear warning alarm? in the forum Storage & Archiving https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/activeraid-how-to-clear-warning-alarmae-2/#post-2475795 Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:45:44 +0000 Reply to ActiveRAID - how to clear warning alarm?

Nearly 12 years later this is still good advice. Thank you. 😉

-Matt

]]> 784d075120fbd8115935d9b09f2e77d5 Matt Riley started the discussion Active Storage ActiveRAID super slow writes in the forum Storage & Archiving https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/active-storage-activeraid-super-slow-writes/ Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:12:23 +0000 Active Storage ActiveRAID super slow writes

Trying to resurrect an old Active Storage ActiveRAID AC16SFC02. I have everything working, green lights across the board, including the 16 drives (2 TB, SATA II). I have it directly attached to a Mac Pro with a 4-port fibre card (4 gb connections) and the drive mounts fine. However, write performance is absolutely horrible no matter the RAID…

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