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So I have a LaCie 6GB Thunderbolt Drive and one of the drives failed. I got a replacement from LaCie and installed it, then learned that El Capitan no longer supports setting this up in Disk Utility.
I did research and came across SoftRAID. I downloaded it and now I am attempting to use it. I had to wipe out the old Raid, so I backed it up and reset it up with SoftRaid and I have no clue if I did it right.
On the left it now lists the two drives in the raid as separate. My other Raid, which is newer is only listed as one drive. Is there anyway to confirm I set this up right?
Also, how can I convert another drive to SoftRaid?
Thanks
Posted : 28/01/2016 12:13 am
SoftRAID can only see what OS X sees. I suspect the other enclosure is a "hardware RAID", with LaCie, they are generally striped (RAID 0) together, which increases the capacity. To OS X, it appears as a single disk/device.
If you see a volume on the right, with links to two disks on the left, and SoftRAID describes the volume as a Mirror (or stripe, if that is what you wanted), then you did it correctly.
At present to convert a drive to SoftRAID, back it up and initiailze it. Then create the volume(s) you need in conjunction with other disks.
The LaCie that shows as a single device to OS X, you cannot break that up using SoftRAID, it is set by hardware.
Posted : 28/01/2016 1:27 pm
