APFS is Apple’s first new file system in over 30 years. It offers a host of features not found in HFS+, including native encryption, copy-on-write, snapshots, and greatly improved volume stability. We recommend using APFS whenever you are creating a volume which only uses SSDs as this allows you to take advantage of these great […]
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We recommend that you replace older disk drives even if they have not failed. As disks age, the chance that they will fail increases. It is always better to replace a disk before it fails than to wait for it to fail and have to restore data from a backup or replace a disk on […]
It is tempting to ignore disk errors when they occur. Your Mac seems to be working fine and yet SoftRAID keeps telling you that one of your disks has an error. You should take all disk errors seriously. Often a disk which has been reliable will have one or two errors a few months before […]
Most modern disks only receive limited testing when they are manufactured. They are tested to ensure that they can start and stop reliably and that they can read and write to some small fraction of the sectors on them. You should not trust your valuable work on these disks until you know that all of […]
Time Machine supports encrypted volumes on any SoftRAID APFS volume. One cavaet, is RAID 4/5 on HDD (rotating media) are currently very slow when encrypted, so we highly recommend you NOT encrypt RAID 4/5 volumes on HDDs. All other RAID types work fine. Whe you launch Time Machine, it iwill prompt you to encrypt your […]
SoftRAID 7 and SoftRAID 6 SoftRAID XT is designed to work only with OWC storage solutions and volumes in a single enclosure. SoftRAID Pro and Lite work with OWC storage solutions as well as third-party solutions and will enable users to store data across enclosures. ThunderBay Flex 8 ThunderBay 8 ThunderBay 6 ThunderBay 4 ThunderBay […]
During the trial period, you can use all of the features of SoftRAID, including Pro features.
Most third party utilities are fully compatible with SoftRAID volumes. This includes: DiskWarrior, TechTool Pro,, Disk Drill, R-Studio Carbon Copy Cloner and others.
The SoftRAID Monitor generally uses less than 0.2% of your Mac’s CPU power, even when you are using SoftRAID for both your startup volume and all your data volumes. The SoftRAID driver only uses CPU power when you are reading or writing files. Reading and writing to RAID volumes usually uses less than 4% of […]
Convert AppleRAID to SoftRAID To convert AppleRAID volumes to SoftRAID just follow these 6 simple steps: 1) Ensure your AppleRAID disks are connected and have been backed up 2) Launch SoftRAID 3) Select your AppleRAID volume tile from the list of volumes within the SoftRAID application (all volumes that are connected to and recognized by […]