Windows 11 Issues - SoftRAID Forum

RAID 5 Volume will not mount

Teddy_mfm_88 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:07:40 +0000

I have had to rebuild my RAID 5 Volume on a ThunderBay 4 after a file system corruption following a computer crash. The volume appears to build correctly, and the 4 disks all check out ok. However, the volume does not mount, so it is inaccessible in Windows Explorer. The 4 drives and the "Raid Volume" (Disk 5) are visible in Disk Manager. Is this a known bug and is there a workaround so I can mount it and recover my lost data from my backup?

Computer crashing immediatly after launching SoftRAID 8 installation

RobotAboveAll — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:49:08 +0000

Hello,

A few minutes ago, I decided to install SoftRAID 8 to manage my Akitio QuadX Thunderbolt 3 drive. The moment the installation started, my computer crashed and I couldn’t do anything except restore it to a previous restore point.

I’d like to understand what happened…

Thanks.

Windows 11 write speeds survey for raid 5

nanashi — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 03:08:12 +0000

Hi! I'd like to establish some baselines numbers so I'd like to ask:

What is the absolute verified fastest raid 5 write performance that has been seen with any hardware on a windows system and what hardware was it using?

RAID 5 volume couldn't write all of a sudden and now missing 1 disk out of 5 Fortis 5c enclosure

mistargill — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 12:28:26 +0000

RAID 5 volume couldn't write all of a sudden and now missing 1 disk out of 5 after reboot and disk error check.

Case#02823350

What are the troubleshooting I could do to get the volume back?

Immediate issues trying to create RAID5 volume using Softraid and Mercury Elite Pro

Mangerang — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:42:38 +0000

Windows 11 10.0.26100

Mercury Elite Pro Quad

4x Seagate Ironwolf 10TB

My OWC enclosure was delivered yesterday, along with 4 brand new seagate 10TB HDD's I was able to setup a RAID 5 volume (NTFS), and copy a bunch of files into the volume, however when I tried to access the files they suddenly disappeared. Next thing SoftRAID shows two drives as 'missing' - despite showing as 'healthy' in Softraid. I deleted the volume and attempt to start from scratch, but two of the drives are shown as only having 912mb free (impossible) thus there's not enough storage space to create a RAID5 volume with the drives.

I attempted to clean the drives in SoftRAID, but get a message saying they are protected by safeguard (despite there being no option to disable safeguard on the individual drives). Luckily I have a Mac computer for work, so I was able to completely scrub the whole volume (which was showing up as raid5 on my mac, interestingly). I then plugged the enclosure back into my windows computer, to start the whole process again.

I can create a RAID5 volume, copy files into it, however then these files disappear. I restart my computer, and now in SoftRAID I have duplicates of all of my drives!?! So two A drives, two B drives, etc. One set show 912.0 MB free per drive, the other shows 9.1TB free per drive.

Am I doing something wrong, and if so, what? This is the furthest thing from 'plug and play'? Can someone please advise on how I can fix these issues?

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No way to unmount RAID 5

Seth Goldin — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 20:24:50 +0000

OWC Mercury Elite Pro Quad
RAID 5
Each drive is NTFS
SoftRAID Standard 8.5.1.5
Windows 11 Pro 24H2

There seems to be absolutely no way to unmount a volume. There are absolutely no buttons to be able to eject the enclosure, nor any options by right-clicking into a contextual menu. What's going on? Computer hangs on shutdown or reboot every single time.

Optimal Stripe Size Raid 5 Softraid 8

jhbball2002 — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 04:16:15 +0000

Just to confirm, is there a recommended stripe size for serving large video files (10+ gb)? There seems to be a general recommendation for 64kb, but it defaults to 256kb. Also, would you recommend 'server' or 'digital video' (and what's the difference between the two?)

SoftRAID reports that an update is available

dougdu — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 21:40:38 +0000

I have SoftRAID for Windows 8.3.0.6 installed on a Windows 11 machine. Both the update agent and the "Check for updates" menu option claim an update to the version I already have installed is available.

Moving from Catalina to Windows 11

chobochobo — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 16:02:46 +0000

I have a Flex 8 and various thunderbays (some TB2, some TB3). All using RAID5 and generally well behaved.

I'm currently running 5.8.4 XT on a 2018 Intel Mac Mini. I'm contemplating on getting a Windows desktop again, so Windows 11.

- Will these enclosures work with USB4 please

- I would upgrade to the current Softraid XT or Pro. Would these RAID5 volumes work just the same on Windows as they have for me on MacOS please?

- Are there any known differences to running OWC enclosures with softraid RAID5 volumes that I should be aware of please?

Cheers

Raid 1 Won't Mount

gdub — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 15:44:21 +0000

Looking for any help as I had some working files from this drive set and even temporarily could really use access to copy stuff over. I had a similar problem with this RAID1/2x8TB sata drives mounted internally maybe a year ago. I updated my SoftRaid app it worked again. I checked for updates and I'm all up-to-date. This RAID1 pair (2x8TB) won't mount in windows 11. If I go to view all disks, I can see them both. I have a feeling I got some indication from Disk Health that one of these was predicted to fail but I did not replace it although I have not seen anything since and that was some time ago. For a test, I cycled power and connected only one of this pair at a time. FIrst the primary then the secondary. When I powered on with only the primary I did not see the drive in Windows Explorer, but when launching SoftRaid I see it's asking me to add a member or remove member disks. I'm hesitant to do that although I wonder if it would then mount and I can get to my data to copy safely then rebuild the set with a new disk. However, I then cycled and removed the primary and only connected the secondary, and as expected, doesn't mount, but when I launched SoftRaid it sees the RAID. I think it made this disk now the primary (maybe temporarily) and shows #2 missing. It's slightly different in that it doesn't ask me in the window if I want to add/remove member I just see it's missing. I also went to all disks and clicked on this drive and show healthy. I'm wondering if there's a process of validation I should do or a way again of getting my data for now. It seems odd if one drive failed I can still see them both and that makes me worry about removing a member as maybe one is corrupt? If I were to remove a member from the primary set as it offered when I only had the primary connected, could I still potentially mount and read off the one that is still hopefully functioning correctly? Thanks for any help and guidance!