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Trying to determine if my OWC Gemini is the issue or if it is one of my drives. I have two drives in a RAID 1 via Softraid. One of the drives did not mount. This has happened before, which leads me to believe its the enclosure and not the drives. There have never been any warning about the drives in Softraid or Drive DX.

I have a few OWC Drive Docks. Will Softaid recognize the RAID 1 for these two drives if i remove them from the Gemini and put them in a Drive Dock?

I recently started to keep my macbook connected to my OWC Express 4M2 in order for the Photos library to be scanned for faces (I would like to remove old partners photos from my library) but it disconnects unexpectedly when I leave my macbook on in low power mode.

I don't see any options for keeping hard drives awake in system settings on MacOS 26.7, I'm using four Intel 660p 2TBs in a dual mirror raid for redundancy and using an encrypted APFS volume across the four drives. I did not use SoftRAID and I refuse to pay a subscription for RAID functionality, it is a MacOS native array configuration. I frequently come back to the message "Disk Not Ejected Properly - Eject ... before disconnecting or turning it off." It has been connected consistently via the included OWC thunderbolt cable. Are there any system settings I should try changing or is this likely a defective unit?

This is the USB4 model and I have a 2023 MBP with an M3 Pro chip. When it happens, I have to unplug the power supply from the 4M2 enclosure before it will reconnect, reseating the thunderbolt cable doesn't resolve it, password prompt only re-appears after doing so, and disks are not shown in Disk Utility until a few seconds before then.