tanjk
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Hi,
Yes, it's connected via USB3. No eSATA involved. The enclosure itself is an Orico 9558-U3. It's basically a 5-bay USB3 3.5" enclosure. As for connections, it's actually connected to a Mid-2012 15" MBP. This device is then passed-through via Parallels Desktop 12 to a Windows 10 VM.
I'll try my best to describe the 'issue'. My main concern is that whenever I tried to pull a disk (be it dead or otherwise), the entire enclosure goes offline and then re-connects again. My first question will then be is this expected behaviour? The moment this happens, DP will 'think' that a disk has gone missing and subsequently came back online. This triggers the lengthy 'measuring' process.
I observed this behaviour on other USB connected enclosures as well. I have also the very reliable Probox 4 Bay eSATA & USB2/3 Enclosure. These are connected to an Intel H67 based board via ASMedia USB3 controllers. This behaviour made USB3 Enclosures unsuitable for DP. I have to connect those to the same ASMedia eSATA PM controllers and I can individually hot swap the disks w/o affecting DP.
So let me emphasize that DP is really nice. I just need an elegant way to deal with the USB enclosures' bays going offline all at once.
I'll see if I have the time to run the Troubleshooter on the Windows10 VM (I'm half way through the trial license ) I'm basically trying to build a remote backup setup using the 5Bay controller with DP and hook them up to a laptop or something.
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I'm already running the latest beta and that's the behaviour I'm getting. OS is Windows 10.
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Hi,
Brief description of my setup.
1x 5bay USB3 connected enclosure
1x External USB3 HDD
Now the issue I'm facing is, whenever I have to swap disks on the 5bay, the enclosure actually disconnects and then re-connects once the drive is removed (or added). This cause DP to think that disks in the 5bay enclosure have gone missing and starts to 'measuring...'.
Is there a way to add disks (or remove) disks from the 5bay enclosure nicely without triggering this behaviour? The sole External USB3 is a 8TB disk and it takes a long time to 'Measure'. The entire pool is used as a backing store for my backup clients. I can afford to take the pool offline but I don't really want to reboot. It's a Windows 10 machine and running the latest beta version.
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Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I've ran the troubleshooter while it's 're-measuring' after a disk removal from the enclosure. Hope that helps.