After your trial period, if you do decide not to purchase SoftRAID, you can simply convert your volumes back to AppleRAID exactly where they started.
#OS X SOFTRAID FULL VERSION#
With SoftRAID Lite, available for $49 after a free trial, all of the features of SoftRAID (apart from email support and notifications) are available for RAID 0 or RAID 1 volumes.ĭownload and try either the full version of SoftRAID or SoftRAID Lite FREE for 30 days – with no credit card required.
#OS X SOFTRAID FOR FREE#
With SoftRAID Lite, standard support is provided for free via SoftRAID’s moderated user forum, or get the same personalized support as the full version for a small annual or per-case fee.īoth SoftRAID and SoftRAID Lite have full support for SSDs, with the full version offering five RAID levels to choose from – RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 4, RAID 5 and RAID 1+0.
With the full version of SoftRAID, you get access to SoftRAID’s personalized email support with support engineers available to work with users to solve any issues.
Unless you’re using RAID 0 volumes (which are unprotected), you’ll never have to run the risk of losing your valuable data through sudden disk failure again. SoftRAID is available free for 30 days and use can be continued for as little as $49.ĭetect a Problem Before It Becomes a ProblemĪmong the features SoftRAID offers are Certify Disk – which checks that disks are reliable before you start to store precious data on them – and SoftRAID Monitor, which constantly checks disks and volumes for potential problems and can email you if it detects a problem such as a disk which is about to fail.* Not only is your data well-protected, but you’ll know in advance of any problems a disk might be having. SoftRAID volumes are up to 86% faster than equivalent AppleRAID volumes, and SoftRAID also offers an extensive feature set, renowned reliability and speed, as well as excellent technical support. SoftRAID Lite (RAID 0/1) and Pro (RAID 0/1/4/5/ 1+0) work with OWC storage solutions as well as third-party solutions and will enable users to store data across enclosures. SoftRAID XT is designed to work only with OWC storage solutions and volumes in a single enclosure. With SoftRAID, AppleRAID stripe (RAID 0) and mirror (RAID 1) volumes can quickly and easily be converted to SoftRAID volumes without losing any of your valuable data. SoftRAID is available in three versions, Pro, Lite and XT. Lossless Conversion of Your AppleRAID Volumes to SoftRAID Fortunately, with the help of SoftRAID, there’s a solution. This means that if your existing AppleRAID volumes develop a problem, Apple can’t help you. The SoftRAID 3 driver sends data to two or more drives at once. I understand its advantages (particularly Raid 10+ etc, and drive health monitoring), but installation is quirky it requires T2-equipped Macs to bypass OS security check at startup, documentation and licensing is not clear.
#OS X SOFTRAID FOR MAC OS#
In 2009, Apple stopped actively working on AppleRAID and eventually removed full support for the feature completely in OS X El Capitan. The product has been totally rewritten for Mac OS X, according to Timothy Standing, SoftRAID LLC’s vice president of engineering. Just got a Thunderbay4 from OWC, and they’re very clearly keen for one to use Softraid.
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