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OWC article about Softraid 8 release pulled

smayer97 — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 07:19:29 +0000

What happened? Article released pre-maturely?

https://eshop.macsales.com/blog/90820-the-most-powerful-raid-tool-on-the-planet-is-here-softraid-8-brings-massive-performance-and-usability-improvements/

SoftRAID to hold AMA Live Stream session (Ask Me Anything)

SoftRAID Support — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:44:56 +0000

We are always looking for user feedback. We are having Live Q&A sessions, the first in late March:

From Adam Hokin - Product Manager for SoftRAID and all other OWC software:

Hey all,

I'm the software product manager at OWC. Our team heavily monitors feedback and real-world usage from here and other sites.

I’ve had amazing calls with DITs (Digital Imaging Technicians - some are members of the SoftRAID Forum) about their good and bad SoftRAID experiences. I want to continue the group engagement as we approach our next major software release.

OWC is hosting an AMA (ask me anything) style livestream with myself and SoftRAID’s lead engineers later this month. I’d appreciate hearing questions from this group on anything related to SoftRAID in this post’s comments.

This is an opportunity to ask the most knowledgeable experts in the world about SoftRAID / software RAID / OWC storage questions. My only ask is that these be constructive and are framed as questions. I will pick the questions for the livestream and we will field on video.

Thank you all. I’m looking forward to continuing engagement with the community!

Hide Xcode simulator volumes from Softraid

micheloupatrick — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 13:14:39 +0000

Xcode mounts ios simulator volumes that are hidden from the Finder but are displayed in Softraid (and in Disk Utility) : it would be nice to have them not showing up in the softraid interface as there can be several of them cluttering the list of volumes.

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RAID 6

Benthebear — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 05:33:24 +0000

I know it’s been talked about before I think the last post I saw about it was in late 2022. I have seen posts going back at least 2 years stating some version of “It’s coming”. I personally would love the option for RAID 6. I actually think a lot of pro photographers/videographers and the like would adore having this extra peace of mind that comes with RAID 6. I also believe it would be a highly beneficial business move for SoftRAID. Can anyone point out another macOS / Windows piece of software that can do what SoftRAID does that supports RAID 6 for DAS configurations? I don’t think it exists. I know there is a demand I know the community would like RAID 6 implemented as an option ASAP.

Create a NAS with my Thunderbay 4

Sylvain — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 14:12:30 +0000

Hi,

I have a Thunderbay 4 (TH3) with 56To in RAID 5 and I would like to know how to use it into a NAS if it's possible, can I buy a random NAS enclosure and plug my Thunderbay on it? Any suggestion? Thanks

Syl

Which version of Softraid?

rsths12 — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 17:15:59 +0000

I have Softraid Pro, and I am planning on setting up a RAID 0 array to use as a high speed editing drive for a video project. The data for this array already exists in three other places, so no redundancy is needed. A colleague and I are planning on sharing this drive. Would my colleague need Softraid on her Mac to use the drive to edit from? If yes, which version of Softraid would you recommend?

Thank you!

Newbee Question - Powering Down?

MrWheelz — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 18:55:11 +0000

I just created my first volume with SoftRAID and a ThunderBay 8, and everything is working well. I have a question that I feel dumb for asking. What is the best/recommended procedure for powering down a ThunderBay 8? I'm assuming I can restart and/or shut down my server and then switch off the ThunderBay 8. Or, can I simply "Eject" the drive from the desktop and then switch off the ThunderBay 8? With the RAID being controlled from the server I don't know how fragile this relationship is. I come from a Drobo environment where I always went into the Drobo Dashboard to power down the enclosures.

Another question, kind of related. I live in an area where have power failures 2-4 time a year. I have the server and enclosures on a UPS. I'm worried that if I not home and I have a power outage that last longer than my UPS something could go wrong. Any recommendations would be appreciated.

Just FYI, my server is a Mac Studio and I have 2 ThunderBay 8's, one RAID 0 being backed up to another RAID 5.

PLEASE SUPPORT SYSTEM EXTENSION

bvp — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 20:08:43 +0000

It's 2023. Is there support for system extensions on the horizon so that we don't have to put our device into reduced security to install a kernel extension?

Performance Monitoring..

petewilson — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 15:32:30 +0000

I have a Thunderbay Mini 4 enclosure filled with 2TB 2.5" hard disk drives arranged either as RAID 1 + 0 or RAID 5. These don't seem to last very well. Initially an easy 100MB/sec plus per drive on large files in the TB4 Mini. But after a month or five the transfer rate drops a great deal - sometimes.

Testing the drives using AJA System Test Lite, I can see that writes have a problem. The transfer rate varies across the GB of data, hitting 100MB/sec sometimes and dropping to 4 or fewer MB/sec for some substantial amount of data. Looks like a noisy square wave.

I attach a .pdf document showing results for the worst drive (with the disks in a USB-2 connected Voyager S3, so max speed is 38MB/sec).

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But to do this I need to delete the volume, reformat the drives with Disk Utility, and then measure.

So, to the point: could you consider adding a "test this disk drive's performance" capability that would do something like what the Aja test does, on a drive still part of a volume, using some blocks which were not part of a file? Even better if the results were shown in a manner similar to Aja's

Thanks!

Beta SoftRAID versions

Henry-In-Florida — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 00:11:04 +0000

Heard about the SoftRAID 6.3 versions. Is there a link?