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What is volume safeguard and why should I use it?
Volume Safeguard protects you from accidentally destroying a volume that contains important data. When Safeguard is enabled on a volume,...
Does SoftRAID support encrypted volumes?
Does SoftRAID support encrypted volumes? Mac: Yes, SoftRAID supports encrypted APFS volumes, although indirectly. Any SoftRAID APFS volume can be erased...
Does SoftRAID support RAID 6?
RAID 6 is a widely requested feature because it provides dual parity protection, allowing a volume to survive two simultaneous...
Replace a disk when SoftRAID reports disk errors
It is tempting to ignore disk errors when they occur. Your Mac may seem to be working fine, and yet...
Important Steps to Protect Your RAID 4/5 Volumes With SSDs (Mac only)
This is an important notice for all users running RAID 4 or RAID 5 volumes with NVMe or SSD drives....
What are the limitations when resizing a SoftRAID Volume?
Note: SoftRAID does not support adding disks to expand an existing RAID 5 volume. For example, you cannot start with...
Can I keep using SoftRAID 5, SoftRAID 6, or SoftRAID 7.5?
SoftRAID 7.6.1 is compatible with macOS Mojave (10.14) through Ventura (13.x) but is not compatible with Sonoma or later. SoftRAID...
Step-by-step instructions for allowing the SoftRAID driver from OWC to load on a Mac (Pre-macOS 13.2.1 Ventura)
Pre-macOS 13.2.1 Ventura or older MacOS versions In order for the SoftRAID driver to load properly, you may need to...