Hello!
I have a Mac Pro (aka flower pot) and bought a Thunderbay 4 12TB with softraid in 2015. It has been setup as RAID5 w/ an HFS+ filesystem ever since. Since I replaced 2 drives in the last two years based on predictive failure advice.. hoping to keep this unit running and useful..
I have stepped up to the beta 6.0.* softraid after stepping up this intel mac to Big Sur, but even the latest beta does not let me mount my raid5 hfs+ filesystem. (If I connect my thunderbay to my macbook pro retina 2012 laptop the filesystem works great on Catalina)..
Here are my questions.
1) Is it possible to mount my HFS+ volume on my Big Sur (Intel mac) - even if just readonly - or do I have to wait until a future release?
2) Once SoftRAID for Big Sur officially comes out.. will my HFS+ still be the recommended filesystem to use? I have a big USB drive backup of my volume, so I can reformat if necessary to migrate.
Erik
The latest SoftRAID release, 5.8.4, is not compatible with Big Sur. We will be doing public beta's until 6.0 is ready, which could take a couple months. New betas will be released as we go, and you will be auto notified through the SoftRAID Monitor.
here is the link to the beta: SoftRAID 6
Read the release notes!
Make sure you "Approve" OWC as an Identified Developer in Security Preferences in MacOS when prompted.
Let us know if this does not work.