Hi, Just took delivery of this 4 bay ssd enclosure and testing it on my Macbook Pro 2016. With 4 SSD drives inserted, I see all 4 on my macbook and all 4 are mounted. If I then un-mount any one of these SSD drives in OSX, the second I pull the unmounted drive from the encloure, all 3 remaining drives also get momentarily disconnected and the Mac reports all drives with the 'Disk not ejected properly' error, suggesting drives have been pulled without unmounting.
The same applies if I have 3 disks inserted and all 3 are mounted, then I add a 4th disk to the remaining unused slot - as soon as I plug in the 4th disk, all of the SSDs are momentarily disconnected, and the mac reports this as an error. So basically, the enclosure is not hot-swapable as I believed it would be.
This is a monumental PITA, and I am not sure if I should return the enclosure. If anyone knows of a fix for this, I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks, Paul
@Paul Atherton This has recently come to our attention. The primary chipset used does support hot plug, but when combined with another chipset for the DS-4SSD configuration the unit is not fully hot-swappable. We are working to revise the unit and have taken in all feedback to do so to make it easier to use.
That said, our 5-bay (DS-5R15) uses different hardware and is a newer SKU, and is hot-swappable.
Έψαχνα για κάτι καινούριο να δοκιμάσω όταν είδα μια ανάρτηση για αυτόν τον ιστότοπο σε ένα τοπικό φόρουμ. Δοκίμασα το spingranny και η εμπειρία ήταν πολύ καλύτερη από ό,τι περίμενα μετά τις προηγούμενες απώλειές μου αλλού. Είναι ένας εξαιρετικός τρόπος να χαλαρώσεις και να απολαύσεις λίγο προσωπικό χρόνο όσο μένω εδώ στην Ελλάδα, και οι νίκες είναι ένα υπέροχο μπόνους.
I’ve seen similar hotswap issues with DS-4SSD on Mac—it can be related to how macOS handles external drives or power management. Sometimes reconnecting or checking disk utility settings helps. On a side note, while managing my Mac setup, I’ve had a great experience using FastVPN by Namecheap (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fastvpn-secure-private/id1381516895). It keeps my connection secure and stable, which is especially useful when working with external devices and transferring data.
