Softraid on Mercury Dual - Hardware Compatibility https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/softraid-on-mercury-dual/ SoftRAID Discussion Board en-US Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:51:18 +0000 wpForo 60 RE: Softraid on Mercury Dual https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/softraid-on-mercury-dual/#post-5751 Fri, 04 Dec 2020 02:40:04 +0000 Yes you can do this. and SoftRAID does not care about what disk you have.

I don't think you will get much of a performance hit on a Mirror.

]]> Hardware Compatibility SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/softraid-on-mercury-dual/#post-5751 Softraid on Mercury Dual https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/softraid-on-mercury-dual/#post-5748 Thu, 03 Dec 2020 20:17:05 +0000 I bought a Mercury dual to run in RAID 1 mode. However, the manual states that it needs two identical drives (up to the firmware). That kind of defeats the purpose of RAID 1: with a drive failure in two years time I never will find an identical one to rebuild the array. 

So I am considering setting the Dual to independent and use Softraid (XT) to create the RAID 1 array. Is this a viable and reliable solution? Will softraid be able to rebuild the array in the Mercury Dual using a different but similar size drive as a replacement?

And (on a 2012 MacMini on USB 3.0) does it result in a significant performance hit when I use Softraid instead of hardware RAID?

 

Regards,

Merijn

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