Author Archives: Jeff Jorgensen

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.

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.

SoftRAID supports all Apple silicon (M1/M2/M3) Macs, running macOS 11.3 or later.

SoftRAID 7.6 is compatible with all versions of Sonoma, but will not be compatible with the macOS release in the fall of 2024. SoftRAID 7.5 is not compatible with MacOS Sonoma and later, but will still work on Sierra, 10.12.x through through Ventura, 13.x. SoftRAID 6.3 is not compatible with MacOS Ventura and later, but […]

All SoftRAID versions from 4 to 8 share the same partition map structure, with only a few exceptions. This allows any SoftRAID volume to be easily connected to a macOS computer and automatically mounted. Additionally, since a limited version of the SoftRAID driver is included with all Intel Macs, SoftRAID volumes will mount on these […]

The SoftRAID driver version is tied to your MacOS release. So you may for example see: SoftRAID Application 7.6.1 driver 7.5 SoftRAID Application 7.6.1 driver 8.0 or SoftRAID Application 8.x driver 8.0