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Email notification won’t work with my mail account
Email notifications have been temporarily removed from SoftRAID. We hope to add this back in future release.
Why should I certify a new disk—don’t they get tested at the factory?
Most modern disks only get limited testing during the manufacturing process. They get tested to ensure that they can read...
Can I create a second macOS installation on my internal drive that can run SoftRAID, without affecting my main macOS System?
MacOS APFS volumes have a special feature where you can create additional volumes that share the same space on your...
Can I create an encrypted Time Machine backup on a SoftRAID volume?
Time Machine supports encrypted volumes on any SoftRAID APFS volume. One cavaet, is RAID 4/5 on HDD (rotating media) are...
How does SoftRAID determine how many hours a disk has been used?
SoftRAID uses SMART to ask a disk how many hours it has been used. Disks which support SMART are on...
Disk Hung Errors
When a Disk “Hangs”, this means an I/O was generated to the disk, and it failed to respond. Most of...
Why should my mirror volume use 3 disks?
We recommend that your mirror volumes have 3 disks. This allows you to have two disks connected to your Mac...
How to get SoftRAID to ignore SMART status of predicted-to-fail disk.
If SoftRAID keeps notifying you of a SMART error on one of your disks, it can become annoying. Even if...