I bought x3 8TB WD_BLACK SN850X M2 just a few months ago and put them into an OWC Express 4M2 USB4 Enclosure with a raid 0 using Softraid.
All was good until this morning when I booted my PC up and saw a message saying x2 of these drives should be replaced due to failure and I had to proceed to bios to get the PC started.
In Softraid, I couldn't delete the RAID volume and just kept getting random errors and Windows kept giving me I/O read/write errors about the volume - but I could copy files ok although the transfer speed was very up and down and slow.
So i took out the M2 drives and used them as a single drives and went to Disk Management is Windows where i tried to delete the partitions.
Again, this failed with errors such as: 'the semaphore timeout period has expired trying to delete partition' or the system kind of hung and did nothing.
Finally, I went to CMD prompt and tried to use the 'DiskPart command-line tool' but again, got the 'the semaphore timeout period has expired trying to delete partition' error again.
Have these x2 drives actually failed (the third one I was able to get working again with no problem) as it seems quite a co-incidence but I just cannot get the partitions deleted so i can create a new volume and get them working again.
All was good until this morning when I booted my PC up and saw a message saying x2 of these drives should be replaced due to failure and I had to proceed to bios to get the PC started.
In Softraid, I couldn't delete the RAID volume and just kept getting random errors and Windows kept giving me I/O read/write errors about the volume - but I could copy files ok although the transfer speed was very up and down and slow.
So i took out the M2 drives and used them as a single drives and went to Disk Management is Windows where i tried to delete the partitions.
Again, this failed with errors such as: 'the semaphore timeout period has expired trying to delete partition' or the system kind of hung and did nothing.
Finally, I went to CMD prompt and tried to use the 'DiskPart command-line tool' but again, got the 'the semaphore timeout period has expired trying to delete partition' error again.
Have these x2 drives actually failed (the third one I was able to get working again with no problem) as it seems quite a co-incidence but I just cannot get the partitions deleted so i can create a new volume and get them working again.
