Thank You - Licensing and Subscription questions https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-licensing/thank-you/ SoftRAID Discussion Board en-US Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:08:19 +0000 wpForo 60 RE: Thank You https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-licensing/thank-you/paged/2/#post-22750 Tue, 26 Nov 2024 04:38:38 +0000 @dfortney 

Some enclosures come with SoftRAID, it depends. Did it specifically come with SoftRAID? the sticker would be on the bottom. Including SoftRAID adds to the cost, as I expect you understand. (many buyers already own SoftRAID, and do not need to get another license)

What you did before I suspect, was create an HFS volume, then try to erase as APFS, which does not work.

Standard can only create a single volume, one time.

]]> Licensing and Subscription questions SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-licensing/thank-you/paged/2/#post-22750 RE: Thank You https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-licensing/thank-you/paged/2/#post-22749 Tue, 26 Nov 2024 01:17:15 +0000 So do I need the full license to repartition and format the 2 Apfs file systems within SoftRaid because last time I tried reformatting the partition as apfs in disk manager it hung and jacked up everything. Do I get the full license since I bought the new OWC drive?

]]> Licensing and Subscription questions dfortney https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-licensing/thank-you/paged/2/#post-22749 RE: Thank You https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-licensing/thank-you/#post-22748 Mon, 25 Nov 2024 23:44:44 +0000 @dfortney 

You can create multiple different volumes with SoftRAID, and multiple RAID and file systems. No issues on your end.

APFS is different, it is a "Container", that also supports multiple volumes inside the same container. (Using Disk Utility, they are "soft volumes"

 

]]> Licensing and Subscription questions SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-licensing/thank-you/#post-22748 RE: Thank You https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-licensing/thank-you/#post-22746 Mon, 25 Nov 2024 20:27:18 +0000 Received my 4TB TB5 Envoy Ultra and copied all my data from the 8TB mini Atikio RAID enclosure SSDs.  What's the next step in repartitioning and reformatting the RAID to start over with?  Ideally I would like 2 partitions across the 4 SSDs, one of about 500GB for system disk CCC backups and one with the rest of the space for my data.  Ideally I would like to use APFS for both partitions if possible with RAID4 in SoftRAID.  Once I repartition and format the closure I plan to copy the data back from the Ultra.  Is it possible to use APFS and RAID4 with SoftRaid?  Also since I bought the Envoy Ultra does that mean I get another year or two of proper and full SoftRaid license support? 

]]> Licensing and Subscription questions dfortney https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-licensing/thank-you/#post-22746 RE: Thank You https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-licensing/thank-you/#post-22376 Tue, 24 Sep 2024 01:13:28 +0000 @dfortney 

We will release as soon as power consumption, heat consumption, availability, etc are available. It is obviously something we are working on, as who doesn't want to sell bigger capacity, but I remember there are some hardware limitations with current technology.

]]> Licensing and Subscription questions SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-licensing/thank-you/#post-22376 RE: Thank You https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-licensing/thank-you/#post-22373 Mon, 23 Sep 2024 22:33:02 +0000 Wish they had an 8TB version of the envoy ultra... I'd be all in.  Want something without separate power or having to install blades and more portable.

]]> Licensing and Subscription questions dfortney https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-licensing/thank-you/#post-22373 RE: Thank You https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-licensing/thank-you/#post-22372 Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:11:47 +0000 @dfortney 

Just pick one out from this page:
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/thunderbay-4/thunderbolt-3-raid-5

Note: an "8TB" Thunderbay, with RAID 5, gets 6TB capacity. Remember to reduce the RAID 5 capacity by 25%.

For HDD's"
If you need 8TB total in RAID 5, you need 16TB, which has 4 4TB drives in it.

If you want 8TB drives, then get. the 32TB version, which will have 24TB online space.

 

For Flash Storage:
If you want more flash media storage, you have two options:

SSD:

the Thunderbay Mini (with SSD's)
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/thunderbay-4-mini/thunderbolt-3

NVMe

the Thunderblade (silent), or Accelsior 4M2 ( has a fan)

the 4M2 you can equip with your own blades, but do not get off brand blades, the Thunderblade is pre-installed with special blades and heat sink, so you do not need any cooling (outside of normal air conditioning)

The 8TB Thunderblade is extremely fast, will flod the TB bus. the X8 will get you slightly higher capacity in RAID 5, as you get 7/8 of 8TB, (about 7TB) while the 4 blade version (slightly smaller) has 4 2TB blades with a 6TB capacity in RAID 5.

The 4M2 is inexpensive, but you need to get your own blades, and will have a somewhat lower reliability (manual handling, etc), and has the fan.

]]> Licensing and Subscription questions SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-licensing/thank-you/#post-22372 Support File https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-licensing/thank-you/#post-22371 Sat, 21 Sep 2024 17:29:49 +0000 If I need to buy another 8TB RAID for to backup from this messed up one to reformat and restore what is OWC best latest 8TB RAID?  Might as well also get free SoftRaid license for 3 years as well as future proofing my setup.

2623]]> Licensing and Subscription questions dfortney https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-licensing/thank-you/#post-22371 RE: Thank You https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-licensing/thank-you/#post-22370 Sat, 21 Sep 2024 15:46:00 +0000 @dfortney 

Save the support file from SoftRAID, then the forum will allow you to attach it.

]]> Licensing and Subscription questions SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-licensing/thank-you/#post-22370 RE: Thank You https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-8-licensing/thank-you/#post-22364 Thu, 19 Sep 2024 23:13:08 +0000 someone at apple needs to seriously completely rewrite DiskUtility.  For such a critical foundation level app it never 'just works' if you know what I'm saying.  Literally half the time I try partitioning or formatting something it just hangs forever and needs force quit.

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