https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/speed-of-raid/ SoftRAID Discussion Board en-US Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:47:17 +0000 wpForo 60 https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/speed-of-raid/#post-2969 Mon, 12 Nov 2018 20:22:14 +0000 SoftRAID Volumes SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/speed-of-raid/#post-2969 https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/speed-of-raid/#post-2968 Mon, 12 Nov 2018 16:53:23 +0000 Actually, you seem to be doing reasonably well for RAID 1+0 inside a Mac Pro. Your performance is as good as the RAID 5 hardware card. The Mac Pro is not as fast as current machines, as you can imagine, so this is probably all you get from a RAID 1+0 setup. RAID 5 has a problem in this machine, as the CPU is much much slower than newer ones and the RAID parity calculations take CPU time, slowing write performance. Thanks for the reply, is there any benefit to replacing the HDDs with SSD's? I know that I'm limited to SATA2, but I'm trying to squeeze every last drop of speed from this MacPro.]]> SoftRAID Volumes JTFCD https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/speed-of-raid/#post-2968 https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/speed-of-raid/#post-2916 Tue, 16 Oct 2018 17:18:11 +0000 SoftRAID Volumes SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/speed-of-raid/#post-2916 https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/speed-of-raid/#post-546 Tue, 16 Oct 2018 08:49:43 +0000 SoftRAID Volumes JTFCD https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/speed-of-raid/#post-546