Software RAID Creation in SoftRAID

Last updated 2014-06-08 - Send Feedback
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This page shows how easy it is to create a software RAID in SoftRAID.

Creating RAID

Creating a 4-drive RAID-5 fault tolerant volume in SoftRAID is easy: select the drives, then choose the desired type of RAID in the dialog that appears.

The desired volume size can also be specified; it does not have to be all available space, so it can be any smaller size (partition) desired.

Mouse over to see the different types of RAID.

Creating a RAID volume in SoftRAID

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