SoftRAID

If you have many identical external disks, it is often easy to confuse one with another unless you add some...

​MacOS APFS volumes have a special feature where you can create additional volumes that share the same space on your...

You can find a full explanation of how RAID 4 and RAID 5 volumes work on our RAID levels page.

Most modern disks only get limited testing during the manufacturing process. They get tested to ensure that they can read...

SoftRAID uses SMART to ask a disk how many hours it has been used. Disks which support SMART are on...

Time Machine supports encrypted volumes on any SoftRAID APFS volume. One cavaet, is RAID 4/5 on HDD (rotating media) are...

We are working on tools to enable SMART over USB without this limitation. In SoftRAID 7, we have removed SMART...

When a Disk “Hangs”, this means an I/O was generated to the disk, and it failed to respond. Most of...