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I currently have one Softraid enclosure attached to one computer, running RAID5 (Softraid XT was included)
I am about to receive 3 other enclosures and am wondering what licensing is required.
1. Computer 1, enclosure 1 (TB4 mini) is RAID5 (came with SR XT)
2. Computer 1, enclosure 2 (Express 4M2) will be RAID0 and rsynced to enclosure 1 (comes with SR Lite)
3. Computer 2, enclosure 1 (TB4) will be RAID0 (comes bare)
4. Computer 2, enclosure 2 (TB4) will be RAID0 and mirrored to enclosure 1 (comes bare)
I plan to keep SR XT on machine 1 to handle enclosure 1 (RAID5) and 2 (RAID0)
I plan to use SR Lite to set up the RAID0+1 on machine 2 (AFAIK, SR Lite supports RAID0 and RAID1)
Sounds right?
Posted : 29/04/2019 10:26 pm
Almost. SoftRAID Lite does support RAID 1 and RAID 0, but not 1+0. That requires XT.
What you could do is make them both RAID 0 and use Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper, etc, to keep them in sync.
Posted : 29/04/2019 11:09 pm
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Does XT support RAID 01 across enclosures? i.e. 2 mirrored enclosures, both being RAID0.
Posted : 30/04/2019 6:30 am
RAID 1+0 is OK across dual enclosures. SoftRAID does not really care what bus/enclosure disks are in.
Posted : 30/04/2019 11:38 am
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Great -- I thought that Softraid was operating at the enclosure level (with the exception of mirror).
Thanks for your time. Much appreciated
Posted : 30/04/2019 12:55 pm
