Cross-platform Issues - SoftRAID Forum

SoftRaid Dropping ExFat Support(?)

trashcan — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 14:45:19 +0000

I have about 20 Thunderbays that are used on Windows and Mac file systems. I'm constantly moving data around and having a license to access on every single Windows box isn't practical. Given that I use SoftRaid in a striped configuration, I shouldn't need to pay to access the drives, right?

If an improvement is removing support for ExFat, are my Thunderbays all deprecated and need to be reformatted? This is going to take a lot of effort. I will need to buy at least one 48TB enclosure as a holding drive, then I'll have to backup, reformat, and then put the content back on the drives.

Is there a different file system that OWC recommends for scenarios where multiple Operating Systems are used?

Here's an article from OWC encouraging ExFat file systems, which I trusted and should probably be taken down...

thx

One 2 disk raid volume in Thunderbay 4 often will not mount

paulfrost — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 15:33:55 +0000

I have a Thunderbay 4 connected to my PC running Windows 10 through a Thunderbolt AIC with 4 HFS+ formatting Iron Wolf 10TB drives. I am running MacDrive 10 Pro on the PC but not SoftRAID. The two 2 disk RAID 0 volumes were created on a mac. Often times, the second RAID set will not mount when I power up the Thunderbay 4. Only by unplugging the thunderbolt cable and replugging it in will it show up. Once, the RAID volume actually unmounted while it was in use.

I tried repairing both volumes using MacDrive 10 Pro, and when I attach the the Thunderbay to the Mac again, SoftRAID sees no issues with the disks.

Any suggestions as to what might be occurring here?

Thanks

Dual boot OSX 10.15/Win 10 with Raid 5

Sammas — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 01:36:51 +0000

Hi there,

Currently I have a 3 disk Raid 5 running on a Mac Pro using the most recent version of Softraid Pro 5. I am planning on adding a Windows 10 partition to the same machine and just wanted to check on the expected behaviour of my Mac formatted Raid 5.

I am not too fussed about it not being accessible in Windows 10, but I definitely want to make sure the integrity of the raid won’t suffer before proceeding.

SoftRaid Windows volumes accessible on OSX side?

SnakeCoils — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 17:49:56 +0000

Hello,

after the second time my Raid 1 built with Windows 10 embedded feature went RAW (making it unreadable) I decided to go for something more reliable and since I well know the solid reputation of SoftRaid I decided to go with it. After purchasing the license and made the installation instantly I felt at home...

My system is a MacPro 2010 with the following drive bays configuration:

1. Win10 64bit

2. MacOS X 10.6 (kept for Rosetta PPC support feature only)

3. SoftRaid disk 1a (4tb WD RED)

4. SoftRaid disk 1b (same as above)

After the SoftRaid installation and setup on Win10 side I've seen that on OSX the Raid was not shown and this was a step in advance if compared to the infamous Windows "Storage Spaces" where the Raid volumes were shown as unknown volumes asking every time if an initialize was needed...

However after swapping the OSX 10.6 with a fresh install of 10.13 the Win10 SoftRaid volumes were shown also on OSX side! Read only of course (and I am happy to not allow OSX to write its hidden system stuff everywhere) very nice indeed!

I have searched a bit the forums before putting my question here so I apologize if this has been answered elsewhere.

What is the minimum OSX version where the Win10 SoftRaid volumes can be shown and read also on Mac side? I mean, is there a way to see the Win10 SoftRaid volumes on OSX 10.6 or I must install a more recente version of Apple operating system? I would really like to keep the Snow Leopard install and be able to access the SoftRaid archive!

Many, many thanks in advance!