Remove disks then re-insert without problems?

Yes you can. SoftRAID tracks disks by the SoftRAID formatting and partition maps, not the enclosure. So it is no problem to temporarily remove them.

Just be sure to use Static protection when removing disks!

Note: the SoftRAID version for thunderbay can only manage/manipulate disks inside a Thunderbay, but the disks and volumes will continue to work outside the enclosure.

Is it important to reinsert back into the original slots they were created in?

Regards J

It does not make any difference!

The way SoftRAID is designed, all the information about a disk is self contained in the SoftRAID partition maps and SoftRAID status partitions.
As an example, one can create a RAID volume using disks in a USB enclosure, then move those disks into a Thunderbolt enclosure and everything will work as expected without any special cautions needed.

Crikey this is more flexible than I thought. Thanks will now do some tests before committing.

Thanks.

Can a drive formatted in Apple's disk utility be placed into a Thunderbay and be expected to be read without initialising (Apple). I'm finding this not to be the case.

J

Yes it should. When you run SoftRAID, do you see the disk? Does SoftRAID see the volume on the disk and does the disk tile link to it when selected?