The app is developed by Squashed Software and its user rating is 4.5 out of 5. It is a perfect match for the System Tools category. Once you've had a drive fail in a RAID 5 and you introduce a new drive, it has to rebuild the new drive from the parity info on the other drives, potentially stressing a drive that doesn't have a whole lot of life in it. RAID 0 – Stripes Fastest RAID 1 – Mirrors Safest RAID RAID 4 – Dedicated Parity Fast and safe RAID 5 – Distributed Parity Any SoftRAID volume can have up to 16 disks.
Five RAID Levels SoftRAID supports five levels of RAID optimized for speed, safety, or both. SAFER & FAST: RAID 1+0 FASTER & SAFE: RAID 4 & 5. RAID levels 1+0, 4 and 5 will give you a good balance of safety and speed.(See the release notes PDF for more details and known bugs.) For info on macOS versions supported, see the SoftRAID Compatibility Notes. SoftRAID version 5.8.4 includes important bug fixes and changes to improve compatibility with macOS 10.15 Catalina.The first is a striped disk set, or RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) level 0. Disk Utility in macOS Sierra adds the ability to create and manage disk sets.
