Review on 💾 Optimized Highpoint RocketStor 6628A Thunderbolt 3 2nd Gen. RAID Enclosure with 8 Bays by Juan Crane

Bought a Highpoint RocketStor 6124V with 4 USB 3.1 bays with the expectation that it would can be installed to transfer data between PC and Mac hosts in a heterogeneous environment. Initial testing on a Windows 10 PC seemed positive as RAID 5 was fairly easy to create and an exFAT file system to create. It was connected to Catalina after the initial setup using a Mac Mini. Mac immediately warned that the four newly attached hard drives needed to be initialized (which of course you shouldn't do). After installing the drivers provided for the device on the highpoint-tech.com website, the Mac could still see independent drives instead of the single RAID 5 volume created. Even after installing the web GUI, both the standard Finder -Interface as well as Disk Utility On a Mac they could only see individual drives, not the RAID volume. After a combination of reinstalls, reconnects and reboots, the device finally showed up and the web interface was able to see the configuration and the RAID volume could be mounted in the OS. It was then tested with data written from a Mac using exFAT and the Mac OS's Journaled File System, with the transfer rate being reasonable for a single transfer. In urgent need to just transfer to another Mac, Mac OS Journaled FS was left as is and connected the device to another Mac. Again a separate drive appeared with an initialization request. The drivers have been reinstalled on this device, but following the same troubleshooting process using the same OS, the web interface is unable to connect to the RAID device even though the connection is sufficient to show all drives. I suspect this might work after a combination of troubleshooting processes, but I can't be sure if the filesystem is still intact at the moment, since every time you mount individual drives that should be part of the RAID, the operating system dies gives the user the opportunity to accidentally format this drive for use with the operating system, making the data inaccessible. Conclusion: I would not buy again and would not recommend it.