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2023-05-18 macOS Ventura 13.4 Brings Important Bug Fix for Apple Silicon SoftRAID Users

2020-07-12 OWC ThunderBay FLEX 8: Eight Bays for Hard Drives, U.2 NVMe SSDs, Hard Drives or SATA SSDs — Now Shipping

2020-05-19 OWC ThunderBay 8: Speed vs Transfer size, RAID-0 vs Fault Tolerant RAID-5

2020-05-19 OWC ThunderBay 8: Speed Across Volume Capacity, RAID-0 Stripe vs Fault-Tolerant RAID-5

2020-01-05 OWC Mercury Accelsior M42 PCIe SSD: Running Two of Them Independently — Awesomely Fast (but don’t stripe 8 blades yet)

2019-02-16 When a Hard Drive Fails: Rebuilding a RAID-5 in SoftRAID

2019-01-24 OWC Thunderbay 6 vs OWC Thunderbay 4: What If 5 Drives Are Used for RAID-5?

2019-01-24 TESTED: OWC Thunderbay 6, RAID-0 and RAID-5 Performance

2018-09-18 OWC Launches SoftRAID Version 5.7

2018-01-17 SoftRAID Updated to Fix Issue with macOS 10.13 High Sierra

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2019-08-01 Computer Storage for Photographers (August 2019)

2019-02-18 Delayed For Days: Hard Drive Horrors

2019-01-10 Drives Full, Upgrading to OWC Thunderbay 6 with Six 14TB Drives (84TB total space)

2015-11-12 How to Use 32TB or 40TB of 8TB Hard Drives?

2015-11-11 Big, Fast and Fault-Tolerant Storage for Photographers and Videographers: 8TB Drives Singly or as RAID-4, RAID-5, RAID-10, RAID-0

2015-10-16 Big Fault-Tolerant Storage for Photographers: Deal on the OWC Thunderbay 4

2015-08-22 Deal on Big Storage for Photographers: OWC Thunderbay 4 RAID-5 Edition with Extra 4TB Drive

2014-08-04 Fault Tolerant Storage for Photographers or Videographers

2014-06-08 Software RAID and Fault Tolerant Storage for Photographers and Videographers (RAID-5, RAID-1+0, etc)

2014-06-03 Data Loss or Fault Tolerance?

2014-05-28 Storing and Storing Video Footage: Fault Tolerance the Right Way to Go

2010-01-20 RAID 5 for performance and reliability

RAID

Various types of RAID setups..

  1. About RAID
  2. Speed: RAID-5 vs RAID-0
  3. RAID 0 Striping
  4. RAID-4 / RAID-5 and RAID 6 for Performance and Reliability

About Using Software RAID

Reasons for using software RAID, making the choice of RAID type, etc..

  1. Why Use Software RAID?
  2. Why Use RAID-5?
  3. RAID-5 / RAID-4 Can be Partitioned to Suit
  4. Why Use RAID-1+0?
  5. Why Use RAID-1 Mirror?

Software RAID Performance with SoftRAID 5

High performance RAID-0, RAID-1, RAID-5, RAID-1+0..

  1. Single-Drive Performance with SoftRAID 5
  2. RAID-0 Performance with SoftRAID 5
  3. RAID-5 Performance with SoftRAID 5
  4. SoftRAID RAID-4 / RAID-5 Performance with Heavy CPU load
  5. RAID-1+0 Performance with SoftRAID 5

Software RAID with SoftRAID

Making software RAID volumes..

  1. Walkthrough: creating a RAID-0 Stripe in SoftRAID
  2. Software RAID-5 in SoftRAID

OWC Thunderbay 4 Mini

High performance with 2.5-inch hard drives or SSDs..

  1. OWC Thunderbay 4 Mini Overview
  2. Initializing with New Drives
  3. Sequential Speed vs Transfer Size with SSDs
  4. Sequential Speed of Large Transfers with SSDs
  5. RAID-5 vs RAID-4 with SSDs
  6. Thunderbay Mini with SSDs as a Photoshop Scratch Disk
  7. Thunderbay Mini with SSDs: Incompressible Data
  8. CPU Usage for RAID-0 vs RAID-4 or RAID-5
  9. Real World Throughput for RAID-0 vs RAID-4 vs RAID-5
  10. Outrageous Speed with 8 SSDs in Dual Thunderbay 4 Minis

OWC 40TB SSD (in Thunderbay 4 Mini)

Ultra high flat-line performanc in 40 Terabyte capacity.

  1. OWC 40TB SSD
  2. OWC 40TB SSD: RAID Setup
  3. OWC 40TB SSD: RAID-0 and RAID-4 Sustained Transfer Performance
  4. OWC 40TB SSD: RAID-4 vs RAID-5

OWC Thunderbay 6

Six bay storage solution with RAID-0/1/4/5/10 or non-RAID..

  1. Overview of OWC Thunderbay 6
  2. OWC Thunderbay 6 vs Thunderbay 4: RAID-0 Performance Options
  3. OWC Thunderbay 6: RAID-5 Performance
  4. OWC Thunderbay 6 vs Thunderbay 4: RAID-5 Performance Options

OWC ThunderBay 8

Eight bay storage solution with RAID-0/1/4/5/10 or non-RAID..

  1. OWC ThunderBay 8: Overview
  2. OWC ThunderBay 8: Examples of Various Configurations using SoftRAID
  3. OWC ThunderBay 8: RAID-0 vs RAID5 vs RAID10 Performance
  4. OWC ThunderBay 8: Speed Across Volume Capacity, RAID-0 vs RAID-5
  5. OWC ThunderBay 8: Speed vs Transfer size, RAID-0 vs RAID-5

OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8

Eight bays for HDD, SSD plus PCIe Card and Ports.

  1. OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8: Overview
  2. OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8: Designing an OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8 Configuration for Still Photography or Videography
  3. OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8: HDD Speed Across Volume Capacity, RAID-0 vs RAID-5

OWC Thunderbay IV / 4 Thunderbolt Enclosure

High performance with hard drives or SSDs..

  1. OWC Thunderbay IV / 4 Thunderbolt Enclosure
  2. OWC Thunderbay 4 with Four OWC SSDs in RAID-5
  3. RAID-0, RAID-5, RAID 1+0 Performance (SoftRAID, Thunderbolt v1)
  4. RAID-5 with 4 / 3 Hard Drives (SoftRAID, Thunderbolt v1)

CalDigit T3 3-Drive Thunderbolt Enclosure

Three drives in a high-grade enclosure..

  1. CalDigit T3: 3-HDD RAID-5 (Striping with Parity)
  2. CalDigit T3: 3-HDD RAID-5 vs RAID-0

Drobo 5D with Thunderbolt or USB3

RAID reliability in easy to configure 5-drive enclosure for full-size hard drives..

  1. Data Robotics DROBO 5D

Upgrading Your Mac

When and Why to Upgrade Your Mac..

  1. Upgrading Reliability and Backup

Fast and Reliable Hardware RAID

How fast and reliable can RAID-0, RAID-5 and RAID-6 go using an 8-drive mini-SAS box and a hardware RAID card?.

  1. Introduction to RAID Considerations
  2. Choosing RAID-0, RAID-5, RAID-6
  3. Atto R380 RAID PCI Express RAID Card
  4. Atto/iStoragePro Test Results for RAID-5 Striping + Parity
  5. Atto/iStoragePro Test Results for RAID-6 Striping + Dual Parity
  6. Atto/iStoragePro RAID Conclusions

OWC SSDs, Various

Various SATA and USB SSDs..

  1. OWC 1TB Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD (Late 2015), Single and RAID-0

OWC Mercury Electra 6G 960GB SSD

Fast 6 Gbps high capacity SSD..

  1. OWC Mercury Electra 960GB — RAID-5, RAID-4, RAID-0, RAID 1+0

MacBook Pro eSATA Cards

A review of eSATA cards for the MacBook Pro..

  1. MacBook Pro eSATA with OWC QX2 RAID-5 Enclosure

Drives and Expansion and Various

Reviews of various hardware and software..

  1. Data Robotics Drobo

Desktop Hard Drives

Performance and use..

  1. Toshiba 4TB Enterprise Hard Drive (MG03ACA400)

HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8

Outstanding high-capacity enterprise hard drive..

  1. HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8 Hard Drive
  2. Using 4 or 5 8TB Hard Drives: Singly or RAID and How?
  3. Using High Capacity Drives as Single Large RAID-4 / RAID-5 Volume
  4. Using High Capacity Drives as RAID-4 / RAID-5, Multiple Volumes
  5. HGST Ultrastar He8 Performance: RAID-0 vs RAID-4 / RAID-5 Compared 3/4/5/6/7/8 Drives

Blog posts

2023

2023-05-18 macOS Ventura 13.4 Brings Important Bug Fix for Apple Silicon SoftRAID Users

2020

2020-07-12 OWC ThunderBay FLEX 8: Eight Bays for Hard Drives, U.2 NVMe SSDs, Hard Drives or SATA SSDs — Now Shipping

2020-05-19 OWC ThunderBay 8: Speed vs Transfer size, RAID-0 vs Fault Tolerant RAID-5

2020-05-19 OWC ThunderBay 8: Speed Across Volume Capacity, RAID-0 Stripe vs Fault-Tolerant RAID-5

2020-01-05 OWC Mercury Accelsior M42 PCIe SSD: Running Two of Them Independently — Awesomely Fast (but don’t stripe 8 blades yet)

2019

2019-02-16 When a Hard Drive Fails: Rebuilding a RAID-5 in SoftRAID

2019-01-24 OWC Thunderbay 6 vs OWC Thunderbay 4: What If 5 Drives Are Used for RAID-5?

2019-01-24 TESTED: OWC Thunderbay 6, RAID-0 and RAID-5 Performance

2018

2018-09-18 OWC Launches SoftRAID Version 5.7

2018-01-17 SoftRAID Updated to Fix Issue with macOS 10.13 High Sierra

2017

2017-05-23 SoftRAID Updated to Version 5.6

2017-02-21 SoftRAID Updated to Version 5.5.6

2016

2016-11-26 OWC 40TB SSD: RAID-4 vs RAID-5 from 32KiB to 512MiB Transfers

2016-11-26 OWC 40TB SSD Sequential Transfer Speed: RAID-4 beats RAID-5 by 16% for Reads

2016-11-25 TESTED: OWC 40TB Thunderbay 4 Mini SSD with RAID-0 Stripe and RAID-4 Fault Tolerance

2016-04-11 OWC Announces SoftRAID 5.5: allows users to convert Apple RAID volumes to SoftRAID

2015

2015-12-12 Walkthrough: How to make a RAID Stripe Using SoftRAID 5.1

2015-12-04 OWC Most Popular Items

2015-11-18 SoftRAID RAID-4 / RAID-5 Performance with Heavy CPU load

2015-11-17 HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8: RAID-4, RAID-0, RAID-5 Scalability

2015-11-14 OWC Announces SoftRAID 5.1, and SoftRAID Lite

2015-11-12 How to Use 32TB or 40TB of 8TB Hard Drives?

2015-11-11 REVIEWED: HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8 Hard Drive, Singly and in RAID

2015-11-10 Coming Soon for Testing: HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8 Hard Drive

2015-10-31 OWC Thunderbay 4 Deal: 20TB RAID-5 Edition Deal: now with Spare 5TB Drive

2015-10-16 OWC Thunderbay 4 Deal: 20TB RAID-5 Edition Deal: now with Spare 5TB Drive

2015-10-08 Apple Kills Off RAID Support in OS X El Capitan, Leaving Users Dangling in the Wind: SoftRAID is the Solution Now

2015-09-02 OWC Thunderbay can be Partitioned into Multiple RAID-5 Volumes

2015-08-22 DEAL: OWC Thunderbay 4 RAID-5 Edition with Extra 4TB Drive

2015-05-22 RAID-5 Can Partitioned

2015-04-07 SoftRAID 5.0.7 Delivers Performance Enhancements

2015-02-02 SoftRAID 5.0.6 Released With Important Fixes

2015-01-29 How Fast Can Eight (8) SSDs go: SoftRAID RAID 1+0 vs RAID 5

2014

2014-12-06 OWC Mercury Electra 6G 960GB SSD: RAID-0 Striping vs RAID-5 vs RAID-4 vs RAID-10

2014-11-25 RAID-0 vs RAID-4 or RAID-5: Does the CPU Usage Matter?

2014-11-23 RAID-0 vs RAID-4 or RAID-5: Does the CPU Usage Matter?

2014-11-22 RAID-5 vs RAID-4: Which is Faster?

2014-11-22 RAID: Performance vs Transfer Size

2014-11-21 SoftRAID 5.0.5 Released

2014-11-17 OWC Announces ThunderBay Mini: 4-bay Enclosure for 2.5-inch Drives, Thunderbolt v2

2014-11-14 OWC Offers Thunderbay Mini, Thunderbolt v2 Enclosure for 2.5-Inch SSDs or Hard Drives (4 bays)

2014-10-11 RAID-5 Can Partitioned

2014-08-31 Simplify Your Storage: Fast, Reliable, Expandable

2014-08-05 OWC Offers Thunderbay in RAID-5 Edition

2014-08-04 SoftRAID 5 Goes Final: High Performance RAID 5, RAID 1+0, RAID-0, RAID-1

2014-07-29 RAID 1+0 Fault Tolerance with SoftRAID 5

2014-07-25 Four SSDs in OWC Thunderbay 4 test with RAID-0 and RAID-5

2014-06-29 Testing the OWC Thunderbay 4

2014-06-27 OWC Thunderbay IV vs Thunderbay 4

2014-06-25 OWC Ships Thunderbay 4-Drive Solution with Thunderbolt 2

2014-06-16 OWC Thunderbay Special

2014-06-10 Big Fault Tolerant Storage: OWC Now Offers a Supported and Preconfigured RAID-5 Solution via SoftRAID + Thunderbay

2014-06-08 SoftRAID 5: RAID-5 Can Be One Huge Volume, or Partitioned to Suit

2014-06-08 SoftRAID 5: How it Works (Screen Shots)

2014-06-08 SoftRAID 5: Performance with RAID-0, RAID-5, RAID-1+0

2014-06-03 Awesome: SoftRAID with RAID-5 rebuild

2014-05-28 OWC Thunderbay as RAID-5 or RAID 1+0 Video Storage Solution

2014-01-01 Soft RAID 5 to Offer RAID-5 and RAID 1+0 Fault Tolerance via Software for Any Multi-Drive Setup

2010

2010-12-29 OWC QX2 RAID now with up to 12TB

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