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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 label my SoftRAID disks?
If you have many identical external disks, it is often easy to confuse one with another unless you add some...
How does a RAID 4 or RAID 5 volume work?
You can find a full explanation of how RAID 4 and RAID 5 volumes work on our RAID levels page.
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...
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...
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...
Does SoftRAID support SMART over USB?
We are working on tools to enable SMART over USB without this limitation. In SoftRAID 7, we have removed SMART...