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I very much want to see SoftRAID succeed. For now I will limp along hoping the next release at least fixes all the easiest problems/cases. SoftRAID is a great product and I hope these problems can be resolved soon. I do see new releases of SoftRAID with improvements and I do recognize that Apple puts their customers through too much for often a very small return and a return that is more about the Apple Ecosystem than it is customer satisfaction. The good thing is that this is agreed to be a problem so as long as it is pursued there is hope it can be resolved. If you presume an average SSD read/write speed of 500MB/s and you would have the following Raid 0 maximum limits as expectations. I don't know that this is happening, but I am concerned. When SoftRAID was independent of OWC it was a product that served its' users not a particular storage vendor. I hope this is not going to be the future, but there are a lot of examples of this. If SoftRAID is going to support only OWC products it is a dead product. I almost have the sense that SoftRAID tech support is blaming the SSDs. There is problem where a RAID 0 disk set doesn't realize consistent throughput enhancements when disks are added to the array. I feel as I am begging to see this already.

Having said this, I am concerned with SoftRAID now as the OWC purchase or any purchase of a product often leads to its' decline and demise.

The SoftRAID 6 release is welcome, even though the promised RAID 6 is still a promise. I like the product and want to see it excel.

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A free trial is available and SoftRAID can be purchased at : 2/5 SoftRAID 6.2 Needs Improvement DecemI am a long time SoftRAID user.

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SoftRAID 5.7.3 is a free update to users SoftRAID 5.0 and later. With five different RAID volume levels, SoftRAID has users covered – whether the emphasis is on the safety of your data, the speed of accessing that data or the best of both.

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OWC’s SoftRAID software RAID solution brings technology found only in data centers to workstations and editing bays.

Resolved certify window display issue showing “15 minutes” menu item twice for the duration of the random access test.

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Adjusts the SoftRAID application, allowing users to disable the ThunderBay 6 registration notifications if they wish.

Changes the way that SoftRAID tool reports fatal errors, now writing to the SoftRAID.log rather than the system.log file.

Fixed an issue which caused the “Zero Sectors” feature to fail on the second write, which can occur on NVMe blades having 4KB sectors and a maximum transfer size of 128KB.

With OWC’s acquisition of Akitio, we are excited to now be working directly with their hardware design team and look forward to many innovative new products from them.”Įnhancements included with SoftRAID 5.7.3:

Tim Standing, OWC’s Vice President of Software Engineering – Mac, said: “SoftRAID has supported users with Akitio enclosures for years now and can appreciate their quality construction and reliable performance. With OWC’s recent acquisition of Akitio, this SoftRAID update brings tighter integration of OWC software RAID to even more RAID enclosures, enabling users to create and manage their data faster and safer. The SoftRAID development team strives continuously to make SoftRAID the most robust software RAID solution available, and this new release is no exception. OWC announced that their new SoftRAID 5.7.3 update will support the Akitio Thunder3 Quad X and Quad Mini in the XT versions of SoftRAID.

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