In some cases, a hardware RAID controller will be set up as an independent small computer system dedicated to your RAID application, offloading all tasks from the host computer.
With hardware RAID, your controllers can either be card-based as a discrete, physical card or they can be a ROC which stands for “RAID-on-Chip” technology which is integrated hardware that comes with its own motherboard. The role of the hardware RAID controller is to manage your hard drive disks and present them to your host computer as one or more logical units. In this implementation, all hard drive disks are connected to a RAID controller which will physically control and support your RAID configuration. I have had zero problems with it, other than the delay in compatibility with Big Sur.A hardware RAID solution is a dedicated processing system that contains its own processor and memory for running your RAID array. What I do like about SoftRaid is that it provides a continuous, simple diagnostic report on every drive in my system (six total) and monitors the health of my RAID structure. Since your ThunderBay shows up in Disk Utility, can you access it and its files? The fear of not being able to access my external files is why I have not installed Big Sur as of yet.
#Softraid compatible hardware mac#
It appears that the developer still has a lot of issues to work out before releasing the "final" version of 6.0, mostly due to changes in the Mac OS. There is a lot of good, straightforward information to be found there. The first few topics in the blog discuss the problem you mentioned for both Intel and M1 Macs, and possible workarounds. You might nose around the SoftRaid blog here: The ThunderBay icon not appearing on your desktop is a common problem with SoftRaid and Big Sur. My external drive is an OWC product, as is SoftRaid, so it is logical that SoftRaid was used to structure my external RAID 5. I cannot imagine that the installation process is any different than with most Mac apps-either drag and drop, or run an installer. SoftRaid XT is an application, so it resides on my startup SSD in the applications folder.
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Maybe Softraid has found clever ways to overcome the performance hit but I'd check out the read and write speeds which can really slow down your image processing against hardware RAID solutions which are pretty cheap these days or consider just a fast primary drive and daily backup approach.Ĭlick to expand.When I purchased my latest computer system a couple of years ago, my local vendor configured everything to my specifications, so I'm afraid I cannot describe the installation process.
#Softraid compatible hardware software#
I haven't run or tested the Softraid solution but have tested various software RAID implementations over the years and have never really been impressed with the performance, particularly read and write speed performance of software RAID implementations. And of course you can back up to more than one backup storage system whether or not you're running a RAID array if you want protection against multiple drive failures. But you don't really need RAID at all as there are other approaches like just storing images on one drive and then backing up to another drive or to cloud storage which also achieves the big goal of making sure you don't lose your images with a single drive failure. Setting up a RAID array is one way to make sure you have redundant storage (depending on the RAID level chosen) but personally I prefer hardware RAID solutions that tend to be a lot faster than software RAID. Click to expand.I"d say you should have some form of storage redundancy for your image files if they're important to you.
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