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I bought the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Quad RAID and set up a RAID 5 using SoftRAID on my Mac. However, I work on a PC workstation and when I plug the RAID into my PC, it won't pop up on explorer as a drive. Instead, I only see the separate drives when I need to safely remove them.
On my Mac, the RAID shows up as one drive, so it's working properly there.
Does anyone know how to navigate software RAIDs on a PC? Is this fixable or do I need to return the product?
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Posted : 11/02/2021 10:58 am
We do not yet have support for RAID 5 on Windows.
It is coming this year, probably in the next couple months, but I do not have a date. It will work fine as RAID 1, RAID 0, or as a set of independent disks in the meantime.
Posted : 11/02/2021 11:49 am
@softraid-support Thank you for responding. I redid the RAID so it's now RAID 0 and it still doesn't show on my pc. On disk management, I see them as 4 different drives, but I can't even assign a letter to it. Do I need a specific software on my pc to be able to see the RAID?
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Posted : 11/02/2021 5:25 pm
Did you install SoftRAID for windows? If so, the volume should mount automatically.
Posted : 11/02/2021 7:13 pm
We do not yet have support for RAID 5 on Windows.
It is coming this year, probably in the next couple months, but I do not have a date. It will work fine as RAID 1, RAID 0, or as a set of independent disks in the meantime.
Any update on support for RAID 5 and 1+0 support in Windows? Not many months left in 2021... 🤨
Posted : 26/10/2021 6:18 pm
Its hard to predict technical Software like this, but I still think we may hit end of year. RAID 5 for Windows has to be 100% solid, as user data is stored on these volumes, hence no shortcuts!
Posted : 26/10/2021 11:19 pm
If not RAID5 at least RAID10 would be nice. I would l think it is a bit less technical than getting RAID5 working.
Posted : 28/10/2021 8:50 am
I think RAID 10 is after RAID 4/5. They are coming.
RAID 5 is what most users want, so it has highest priority.
Posted : 28/10/2021 12:52 pm
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