Additionally, SoftRAID utilizes a computer’s advanced processing power versus the slow processors found in most hardware RAID enclosures. With SoftRAID, users can spread volumes over two or more drive enclosures for mind-boggling performance over a single hardware RAID device. SoftRAID unshackles users from expensive hardware RAID technology that’s not upgradeable or expandable. With SoftRAID Lite and Lite XT, Windows users can create super-fast RAID 0 sets or ultra-secure RAID 1 sets, certify new disks before use, receive warnings when a disk is about to fail, and restore data quickly with fast rebuilding.
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SoftRAID is the powerful yet easy-to-use RAID software platform that maximizes drive capacity, offers faster performance, and protects against data loss. Available for purchase now users who have previously purchased SoftRAID 5 Lite XT with their OWC solution will receive this Windows edition for free. This is the first time SoftRAID is available for Windows users, who now have a cross-platform solution and can share RAID volumes between OSes.
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OWC® a leading zero emissions Mac and PC technology company and one of the world’s most respected providers of Memory, External Drives, SSDs, Mac & PC docking solutions and performance upgrade kits, announced the release of SoftRAID Lite and Lite XT for Windows. The drives I will be using are 10TB HGST He10.For the first time ever, software RAID platform now available for Windows, maximizing drive capacity, protecting against data loss and offering faster performance On the plus side ARECA appears to be very heavy enterprise level equipment and is well respected.Īt Lloyd Chambers recommendation I am now also looking at the OWC ThunderBay 6, Also a six bay box which uses SoftRaid as a RAID controller and can set it up for RAID 6. This being a hardware RAID I have been advised that all of the drives have to match. I have also looked at the Areca 8050U3-6, a 6 bay Thunderbolt 3 box which is a hardware RAID solution.
So far I have been considering a Drobo 5D3 (I know the horror stories some people have had with Drobo's "bricking", but I haven't had any of those problems and am currently using a 5 year old 5D and I am not getting the speed I'd like even though i have 128gb MSATA in the cache bay and 7200rpm drives.) I like that like the 5D I can set up the 5D3 with dual drive redundancy (Drobo's version of RAID 6) and swap out smaller capacity driives for larger ones as the need arises. Preface: I am deep into my search for a new DAS (not NAS) mass storage unit.