SoftRAID allows you to create and manage disk arrays to increase performance and reliability. SoftRAID allows the user to create and manage RAID 4 and 5 volumes, RAID 1+0, and RAID 1 (Mirror) and RAID 0 (Stripe) volumes. SoftRAID also provides 'predictive disk failure', where users are alerted to potential disk failures even before they fail. 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.
All disks fail—good ones at about 3% a year, bad ones at 25% a year, and really bad ones at 33%. With SoftRAID, disk failure doesn't mean catastophe. The more disks you have, and the longer you have them, the more likely you are to experience disk failure.
Download latest SoftRAID XT. Note: SoftRAID XT and SoftRAID Lite XT are designed to run on disks inside an OWC enclosure and will not work fully* on disks not in an OWC enclosure If you have other disks that you wish to use SoftRAID on you can upgrade to a full, unrestricted version of SoftRAID. It's now a breeze to create SoftRAID volumes; SoftRAID Easy Setup takes you through the entire process, offering suggestions and help along the way.
SoftRAID's unique RAID features protect your files by alerting you to impending disk failure, and provide fast data access. If a disk does fail suddenly, you can carry right on working so you don't lose your files, or miss your deadline! (RAID levels 1, 4, 5 and 1+0,). Apple stopped actively developing AppleRAID in 2009,removing full support for it in Mac OS X 10.11. If your Apple RAID volumes develop problems, you're stuck—unless you transfer them to SoftRAID! You can use those same volumes with SoftRAID, and transferring is easy. With SoftRAID You don't even need to copy all the files from one volume to another.
You can simply convert your AppleRAID stripe (RAID 0) and mirror (RAID 1) volumes to SoftRAID volumes without losing any of your precious data. Your volumes will be just as fast or faster and you can take full advantage of SoftRAID's renowned speed, reliability and support. Not only is SoftRAID Lite more reliable than AppleRAID, it is up to 86% faster than AppleRAID too! Try out SoftRAID free for 30 days Want to see how much better SoftRAID is than AppleRAID? Just, convert your AppleRAID volumes and use it for 30 days.
If after 30 days, you decide not to purchase SoftRAID or SoftRAID Lite, you can convert your Stripe (RAID 0) or Mirror (RAID 1) volumes back to AppleRAID and be exactly where you started.We measured performance using a 2 disk mirror configuration - SoftRAID mirror volumes read data up to 86% faster than AppleRAID when using SSDs. When measuring speed using 2 HDDs, SoftRAID mirror volumes read data up to 56% faster than AppleRAID.