XSAN and other SANs are incompatible with SoftRAID. SANs require direct access to the disks they use and cannot use disks which are under SoftRAID’s control.
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Yes! Time Machine works great with SoftRAID and you can easily use a SoftRAID volume as the target for your Time Machine backup. Time Machine volumes must be APFS formatted. When you create a volume you intend to use for Time Machine, be sure to select APFS as the file system. Any time you connect […]
Below is a list of SoftRAID versions and compatible macOS versions. SoftRAID 7: macOS 10.12.6 or later SoftRAID 6: macOS 10.12.6 or later SoftRAID 5.8.4: macOS 10.10.5 – 10.15.7 SoftRAID 5.8.1: MacOS 10.8.5 – 10.9.5 SoftRAID 5.7.3: MacOS 10.7.5 SoftRAID 5.6.7: MacOS 10.6.8 SoftRAID 4.5.4: 10.5.8 – MacOS 10.6.8
For both macOS and Windows, SoftRAID volumes are not bootable nor can be created from the bootable OS volume.
Pre-macOS 13.2.1 Ventura or older MacOS versions In order for the SoftRAID driver to load properly, you may need to follow these steps. 1) Launch SoftRAID Install SoftRAID and launch the app. If you have just installed SoftRAID and received a prompt to restart, continue with the instructions on this page first and only restart […]
We are working on tools to enable SMART over USB without this limitation. In SoftRAID 7, we have removed SMART tests over USB, until we can fix this problem.
RAID 6 is a widely requested feature, as it allows users to add larger capacity disk drives. We are working on the implementation of RAID 6 for a future SoftRAID release.
Email notifications are available in SoftRAID 8 Premium for Mac at this time. They will be available in the Windows version soon.
Mac Yes SoftRAID supports encrypted APFS volumes, although indirectly. Any SoftRAID APFS volume can be “erased” in Disk Utility, as APFS encrypted. Note: HDD RAID 4 and RAID 5 volumes are very slow at present, we are working on this issue. Windows Encrypted NTFS volumes are fully supported.
Yes you can create a volume across enclosures, there is no limitation with SoftRAID 8. Note: for SoftRAID 6 and 7, spreading a volume across multiple enclosures required SoftRAID Pro.