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RE: Common questions and Answers

@andyring Understand. Its the way of the world. However, you will be limited in MacOS upgrades. One option for you is this:keep a Mac around that c...

2 years ago
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RE: SoftRAID 8 and RAID 4 external Arrays

@henry-in-florida My guess is fragmentation of files. APFS is good enough at this, add in the decrypted volume and data is probably scattered to th...

2 years ago
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RE: Performance of encrypted APFS RAID5 fixed?

@burningman Here are some RAID encryption performance tests. These are on M1, with a Thunderblade 4. I listed both 16k Stripe unit sizes and 64k,...

2 years ago
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RE: Common questions and Answers

@andyring Essentially, everyone gets SoftRAID Premium. When your support plan "expires", SoftRAID reverts to Standard, with limited features. As lo...

2 years ago
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RE: SoftRAID 8 and RAID 4 external Arrays

@henry-in-florida Encryption is complicated. We are working on this and the reason it is not in the SoftRAID user interface is we have to resolve t...

2 years ago
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RE: Driver can no longer be uninstalled from the Menu in SR8.0?

Correct, as of Ventura 13.3, you can not uninstall the SoftRAID driver. It is a protected system extension, it cannot be "corrupted/damaged" and canno...

2 years ago
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RE: Common questions and Answers

@andyring The driver version is determined by MacOS, i.e, Sonoma 14.4 means the 8.0 driver loads. The app will be SoftRAID 8

2 years ago
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RE: Common questions and Answers

@steve223 It does not let you create new volumes, but you can manage, rebuild and replace disks, yes.

2 years ago
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RE: SoftRAID v7.5 Driver will not update

There is no problem. MacOS versions now determine what driver loads. You are on Ventura, which loads 7.5 driver. Sonoma loads 8.0 after you upgrade ...

2 years ago
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RE: Common questions and Answers

@steve223 Just "buy" a standard license: Its free. Also note, for temporarily connecting an enclosure to another computer, there is no need ...

2 years ago
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RE: SoftRaid 8 Volume will not mount after disk failure

Really sorry about this. First try is remove the newly added disk. see if you can run Disk Warrior? What about doing a clean install and running D...

2 years ago
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RE: OWC ThunderBay 4 on SoftRAID 7.6.1

@dabee enter a license, then save a support file, let me see what the errors are.

2 years ago
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RE: OWC ThunderBay 4 on SoftRAID 7.6.1

@dabee Can you clarify? What specifically did not work?

2 years ago
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RE: An internal part of Softraid application has stopped functioning properly

@davo You are getting hit with the 2019 Mac Pro bug. The volume is not "not mounting", the disks are not showing up is the actual issue. There is...

2 years ago
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