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SOFTRAID SOFTWARE UPDATE
SoftRAID for Windows 3.0 is a free update for current 2.0 users. Basically, it is the brain for running, maintaining, and protecting your RAID arrays. It’s ideal for voluminous data roles including audio/video production and editing, photography, graphic design, database servers, financial applications, and more. SoftRAID’s core RAID creation and management technology has been finely tuned over 20 years of development. SoftRAID is ideal for anyone who needs to safely store and backup massive amounts of data, including video editors, audio producers, photographers, and graphic designers. “RAID 5 opens up the next level of data protection and access to our Windows customers.” RAID 5 has been one of the most requested features from our users, so we’re excited to add RAID 5 to SoftRAID for Windows and expand the cross-platform capability SoftRAID,” said Rick Rockhold, Vice President Software Development, Windows & Mobile. “SoftRAID for windows provides faster RAIDs with management and drive monitoring that other Windows utilities fail to provide. Compatible: Works with Windows 11 and 10.Vigilant: Error prediction helps protect against unexpected failure.Certified: Checks disks before use to ensure they are safe for data storage.Validated: Volume validation ensures sectors can be read and parity is correct.Protected: SoftRAID Monitor constantly watches your disks and alerts you if problems are detected.Universal: SoftRAID works with both Windows and Macs and built-in OWC MacDrive technology lets you seamlessly move SoftRAID volumes between OSes.Advanced: Create RAID 0/1/5 with Windows and RAID 0/1/4/5/1+0 (10) with Macs.Support for TRIM commands on SSD's require OS X 10.7. * Command LIne tools Built in recovery tools for recovering severely damaged partition maps * Disk labeling and blinking for identification * Extended disk information: Hours of use, bus speed, reallocated sector count and media wear for SSDs * Volume validation SMART testing on all disks I/o requests by disk and by volume * Automatic rebuilding of RAID volumes "Fast Mirror Rebuilds" for accelerated rebuild times
SOFTRAID SOFTWARE MAC
* Up to 16 disks per volume Up to 32 total volumes per Mac Support for Thunderbolt 1 & 2, eSATA, SAS, FireWire and USB * All SoftRAID volume can be startup volumes. * Support for all intel based Macs, 10.6 and later RAID 0, 1, 1+0, 4 and 5 (and non-RAID volumes) * SoftRAID 5 offers incredible performance over Thunderbolt, with superior performance compared to most hardware RAID offerings. Outstanding RAID 5 Performance - exceeds 1 Gigabyte per second: * SoftRAID version 5 users can now create RAID 4, RAID 5 and RAID 1+0 volumes, with all the performance, monitoring and reliability features that users have come to expect from SoftRAID.
SOFTRAID SOFTWARE DRIVER
SoftRAID is the premier disk driver for (Mac OSX), replacing the basic functionality of Apple's RAID driver, which has not been updated since 2009.
Eighteen months ago, we set out to create a new RAID Engine in software which would equal the performance and reliability of dedicated hardware RAID controllers, and we've more than accomplished that. We are really excited about this release of SoftRAID. SoftRAID's intuitive interface and powerful feature set make this utility a must-have for any (Mac OSX) Server admin, "Pro" user, photographer, digital-video editor, or desktop user who wants more reliable backup for his computer.
SoftRAID allows you to create and manage disk arrays to increase performance and reliability.