Last seen: Apr 17, 2026
Am I correct in understanding your reply to mean that you do not have any confirmation of what TTP does, nor how it claims to be able to rebuild a vol...
So are you saying that TTP is NOT a true directory rebuilding tool like they claim? If not, that is a very real shame....but then, is it false adverti...
Note that the max capacity of a RAID 5 is (n-1) x physical capacity of smallest drive (since, as pointed out, all slices of a RAID are always the same...
@softraid-support This discussion brings up an interesting topic... do SSDs need to be certified? I was under the impression that it was only needed f...
I pointed some time ago that TechTool Pro claims to be able to repair APFS volumes, since v11 (currently at v18). As per their site: "Most drive pro...
Curious...what is the last version of macOS that v6.3 will install on? What about v7.x prior to 7.6 auto-install on macOS 13.3, i.e. 7.5 or older. W...
Apparently TechTool Pro has been able to repair APFS drives I believe since v11 (now at v17) using macOS 10.13 and higher, though it still does not su...
@softraid-support Some more clarifying questions... Is Time Machine not working on Big Sur RAID limited to SoftRAID or is it the same with AppleRAID...
So to be clear, is this isolated to Big Sur or does this issue also apply to Catalina and earlier? And if just to Big Sur, is this just the latest u...
I do not follow that answer.... are you saying that if you have a HFS SoftRAID volume, Time Machine will no longer back it up or be able to restore to...
@softraid-support TechTool Pro claims to be able to repair APFS drives. Is this not true?
@softraid-support Yes that is true, especially for HDDs but I was under the impression that this was not supposed to impact SSDs, but rather a benefit...
@softraid-support "Note that APFS is about 30 % slower than HFS on SSD's and up to 50% slower on HDD's." Is this really true? (I have not tested th...
Thanks for the feedback. I'll have to dig into this a little further... But to clarify, if SoftRAID is reporting a SMART pass but TechTool Pro is su...
