https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/precautions-when-using-alternate-startup-disk-with-external-raid-5/ SoftRAID Discussion Board en-US Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:30:43 +0000 wpForo 60 https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/precautions-when-using-alternate-startup-disk-with-external-raid-5/#post-2955 Wed, 07 Nov 2018 06:23:18 +0000 All data on A RAID volume is self-contained. There is no risk to starting up from other boot volumes. The only difference when you do not install the licensed driver is errors are not reported and the volume cannot rebuild. But it will mount fine and work as expected. Thank you for clarifying. I've been trying to wrap my head around RAID and your points helped a great deal!]]> Hardware Compatibility b4We https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/precautions-when-using-alternate-startup-disk-with-external-raid-5/#post-2955 https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/precautions-when-using-alternate-startup-disk-with-external-raid-5/#post-2953 Tue, 06 Nov 2018 04:32:41 +0000 Hardware Compatibility SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/precautions-when-using-alternate-startup-disk-with-external-raid-5/#post-2953 https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/precautions-when-using-alternate-startup-disk-with-external-raid-5/#post-555 Mon, 05 Nov 2018 23:59:40 +0000 Hardware Compatibility b4We https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/precautions-when-using-alternate-startup-disk-with-external-raid-5/#post-555