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If this has been answered, please just post the link but my searches weren't yielding me a good result.
I'm curious if I can run TWO Thunderbay 4s and do a RAID 1+0 across the the two boxes somehow with softraid. As in, will softraid maintain RAID across two enclosures?
Posted : 24/07/2017 9:09 am
Yes you can. When you create the volume, SoftRAID has a blinking disk light feature, so all disks in each pair can be selected to be in the same enclosure.
Posted : 24/07/2017 1:16 pm
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Just so I'm not assuming anything incorrect. I have 8 drives in two Thunderbays. I can configure them all in Softraid as single a RAID 1+0 volume (as seen by macOS). Is that right?
Say I have 8 5TB drives (four in each Thunderbay); That's 40TB in total. In a raid 1+0 I would have 20TB of usable space.
Posted : 24/07/2017 2:10 pm
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So just to be clear. If I have eight 5TB drives in two thunderbays.... then I could configure them as a SINGLE volume RAID 1+0 across all 8 drives (two enclosures) and get 20TB of usable space. Is that right?
Posted : 24/07/2017 2:11 pm
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Thanks. Just so I'm 100% clear.
Take eight drives, 5TB each, (40TB in total) in two Thunderbay enclosures..... I can then configure them as a single macOS volume using Softraid and configure them as RAID 1+0 yielding 20TB of usable space. Sound right?
Posted : 24/07/2017 2:13 pm
All three questions are yes!
SoftRAID supports up to 16 drives in a RAID 1+0 volume. Creating an 8 drive RAID volume is easy.
Posted : 24/07/2017 2:16 pm
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Thanks, and sorry for the repeats. It wasn't clear that the posts were "sticking".
Posted : 24/07/2017 2:49 pm
