Upgrade RAID 1 with larger disks - Managing Disks - Certify, Verify, Initialize https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/upgrade-raid-1-with-larger-disks/ SoftRAID Discussion Board en-US Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:24:49 +0000 wpForo 60 RE: Upgrade RAID 1 with larger disks https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/upgrade-raid-1-with-larger-disks/#post-19380 Mon, 12 Jun 2023 22:39:45 +0000 @gzamba 

Here is a link to 6.0.5.

downloads.owc.com/softraid/mac/archives/SoftRAID+6.0.5.dmg

We do extensive testing on every release of SoftRAID. But we cannot hold off a release because of a MacOS tool that is not working as required.
In the case of the blank window issue, we still do not quite understand the cause of this, it seems to happen mostly when users have modified their systems in some way. And it is hard to reproduce.

]]> Managing Disks - Certify, Verify, Initialize SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/upgrade-raid-1-with-larger-disks/#post-19380 RE: Upgrade RAID 1 with larger disks https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/upgrade-raid-1-with-larger-disks/#post-19377 Mon, 12 Jun 2023 21:08:25 +0000 can you please post a link to softraid 6.0.5?

]]> Managing Disks - Certify, Verify, Initialize gzamba https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/upgrade-raid-1-with-larger-disks/#post-19377 RE: Upgrade RAID 1 with larger disks https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/upgrade-raid-1-with-larger-disks/#post-19376 Mon, 12 Jun 2023 20:31:41 +0000 thank you very much for your prompt reply

that is a very serious bug!!! resizing is a very basic functionality!!!

add that to the other bug that I am currently facing, the "race condition", where Softraid 7.5 "does not see" my disks and you can see that Softraid is not working very well for me at the moment...

you should be testing new versions better before letting them  out in the wild

]]> Managing Disks - Certify, Verify, Initialize gzamba https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/upgrade-raid-1-with-larger-disks/#post-19376 RE: Upgrade RAID 1 with larger disks https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/upgrade-raid-1-with-larger-disks/#post-19363 Mon, 12 Jun 2023 05:29:42 +0000 You did fine. the proiblem now is a bug in SoftRAID (turns out we need a fix in the developer XCode to fix it), that it cannot resize volumes currently. this happened when we added better support for APFS volumes.

to resize a volume, do you have access to any Mac you can connect your drives to, for a few minutes, running Big Sur, or older? Then you can resize, with 6.0.5 (which we can post a link to), and bring it back to your current system.

]]> Managing Disks - Certify, Verify, Initialize SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/upgrade-raid-1-with-larger-disks/#post-19363 Upgrade RAID 1 with larger disks https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/upgrade-raid-1-with-larger-disks/#post-19356 Sun, 11 Jun 2023 17:22:00 +0000 Hello everyone.

I have a 4 different RAID 1 arrays with two 6TB disks each. One of these is getting full, so I decided to replace the disks with 12TB ones, thus upgrading the size of the array.

I followed the instructions for replacing the disks, one by one, by removing the secondary disk, and then adding a new one. The process took some 36 hours for each disk.

The problem is that I now have a 6TB RAID 1 array with 12 TB disks and SOftraid will not let me change the size!

What have I done wrong? How can I make softraid use the whole 12TB of each disk?

ANy help would be appreciated

]]> Managing Disks - Certify, Verify, Initialize gzamba https://forums.softraid.com/managing-disks-certify-verify-initialize/upgrade-raid-1-with-larger-disks/#post-19356