
Note that running mirrored RAID 1 or mirrored/striped RAID 1+0 will halve available capacity.

#Softraid pro for mac#
OWC SoftRAID is incredibly powerful, easy-to-use, RAID management software for Mac and Windows. For over 20-years OWC SoftRAID has been driving high-end performance and rock solid data protection. Or you can buy it pre-populated from OWC.įor eight drives (fastest) pricing starts at $1,500 for 4TB, and ends at a whopping $12,799 for 64TB. SoftRAID Pro, Lite, and XT RAID software to manage, monitor, and protect your data on Macs and PCs. Perhaps a bit naively, I expected the same from the Mercury Elite Pro Quad, but with hard disks at its core and SoftRAID 5.6.5 as the controller (nothing to sneeze at, but it can’t quite keep up with the fastest. To add up to the eight M.2 SSDs touted by OWC, you have to use a four-slot OWC Shuttle U.2 to M.2 caddy/adapter included in the box, and then buy another adapter ($150) to max out at eight SSDs and 64TB. Lately, OWC has been making devices that are blazingly fast at a price that’s hard to compete with.

The $300 Mercury Pro U.2 Dual is a Thunderbolt 3 storage box featuring two U.2 (a server/enterprise-level NVMe connector) bays. A great way to reduce cable clutter when employing multiple external SSDs. This sturdy two-bay enclosure is solidly constructed, fast, easily upgraded, and versatile–allowing you to configure internal drives any way you want via the included software. SoftRAID's intuitive interface and powerful feature set make this utility a must-have for any OS X Server admin, 'Pro' user, photographer, digital-video editor, or desktop user who wants more reliable backup for his computer.
#Softraid pro driver#
macOS issues after SoftRAID driver removal SoftRAID also provides 'predictive disk failure', where users are alerted to potential disk failures even before they fail.SoftRAID driver rendered our Windows test bed unbootable The Mobius Pro 5C 5-Bay storage system is designed to meet the needs of power users with the most demanding storage requirements.

It works with five types of hard drives or disks: FireWire, USB, SCSI, ATA and Fibre Channel, and it supports creating RAIDs on combinations of those drives (so you can set up a RAID between an ATA and FireWire disk, etc). Requires an optional second, $150 caddy to handle more than four M.2 drives. Features SoftRAID 3 is capable of creating non-RAID, RAID 0 (stripe) and RAID 1 (mirror) volumes.
