Category:	Utilities
Price:	High
Popularity:	Medium
Version String:	8.3
Release Date:	2024-09-06
Architecture:	Intel & AppleSilicon(ARM)
Minimum OS:	macOS 10.14
Vendor Name:	Other World Computing, Inc
Homepage:	www.softraid.com

Description:

The SoftRAID Application allows you to test disks, create volumes and investigate problems your disks may be having, or about to have.

Each tile in the SoftRAID Application UI represents a separate disk or volume, making it really easy to create and maintain RAID volumes.1

Select the yellow boxes to expand the sections below and see all the great features and functionality of the SoftRAID Application interface.

A disk tile shows you the size and type of a disk attached to your Mac. You can click on the disclosure triangle to see more information about a disk and whether you need to replace it.

SoftRAID displays a separate tile for each disk connected to your Mac.
It will display tiles for:

any hard disks inside your Mac
all SSDs and external disk drives connected via Thunderbolt, SATA, FireWire, Fibre or USB
connected USB flash drives (aka thumb drive) - yes, SoftRAID even works with those!
Disk tiles show you whether a disk is working correctly or needs to be replaced. You can also click on a disk tile to see which volumes use that disk.

There's a lot of information shown on your disk tile:

The SMART* status of a disk - this is checked each time you run the SoftRAID application, every time you startup your Mac and every 24 hours while your Mac is running.
If a disk is predicted to fail. SoftRAID uses internal counters in each disk to determine if a disk is more likely to fail.
Any label you have added to this disk. The label is a name you can add to make it easier to keep track of a particular disk. The SoftRAID Monitor uses a disk's label when reporting errors in dialog boxes, log files or via email. The disk above has been labeled: Offsite Backup #1.
The total number of reads and writes.
The total number of errors.
The number of hours a disk has been used.
The progress and time remaining for any disk operation - like certifying or verifying a disk.

A volume tile shows you information about a volume. You can click on the disclosure triangle to see more information about a volume and whether it has encountered any errors.

SoftRAID displays a tile for all volumes which your Mac can access without using a network. A RAID volume uses parts of two or more disks to store your files.

Volume tiles show you the size and RAID level of each volume. They also show you whether a volume is degraded, i.e no longer protected from a failing disk. You can click on a volume tile to see which disks it uses.

There's a lot of important information shown on your volume tile:

If a volume has a safeguard enabled. A safeguard prevents a volume from being accidentally erased or deleted. It also prevents a volume's disks from accidentally being initialized or overwritten.
The optimization type. This tells SoftRAID how to prioritize rebuild and validate operations relative to file reads and writes. The choices are: Workstation, Server, Digital Video, Digital Audio or Digital Photography
When the volume was created.
The last time the volume was validated. Validating a volume ensures that all sectors are readable. For volumes which are protected from disk failure, validating also makes sure that all mirror disks and parity information is correct.
The progress and time remaining for any volume operation - like rebuilding or validating a volume.
The total number of reads and writes.
The total number of errors.