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ddublu

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Jun 26, 2011
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I have an iMac 5k Retina late 2015 running Sierra.

My setup is as follows:

  • Thunderbolt (TB) from iMac to TB on a OWC TB 2 Dock.
  • One Dell monitor connected DVI from monitor to DVI—TB adapter on iMac
  • TB from OWC TB 2 Dock to 16TB OWC Thunderbay 4 via TB
  • TB from 16TB RAID OWC Thunderbay 4 to TB 20TB RAID OWC Thunderbay 4
  • TB—DVI from 20TB RAID Thunderbay 4 to another Dell monitor DVI

The TB—DVI monitor seems to disconnect frequently but only because the 20TB Thunderbay 4 setup is ejecting the disc. This is a known hardware issue within Apple (per SoftRaid support - https://www.softraid.com/pages/support/faq/faq_disappearing_disks.html) but curious if anyone sees anything in my setup above that would be causing any other type of conflict.
 
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