#Softraid beta driver

#Softraid beta driver

We started testing this new version of the driver on Intel Macs when the first beta Big Sur was released. The final release of the SoftRAID version 6 driver has been tested extensively and is already shipping. The Final Release of the SoftRAID Version 6 Driver Is Already Shipping We will continue to fix bugs in the application and refine the user interface before shipping the final release of SoftRAID version 6 in the coming months. We know this beta release is reliable as the driver has already passed through our test program and is a final release version. Rather than preventing users from upgrading to Big Sur, we decided to open the beta release of SoftRAID version 6 to everyone. Why is SoftRAID version 6 still in beta? We have several additional features we want to add to the SoftRAID application. SoftRAID Version 6 Beta Release Supports Big Sur We know that your important files rely on this piece of software, which is why we spend so much time testing and perfecting it. It gets called to perform every single read and write to a SoftRAID volume вЂ“ often more than 10,000 times a second. It is running whenever you have a SoftRAID volume attached to your Mac. The SoftRAID driver is really the critical piece that makes a SoftRAID volume so fast and reliable. It just receives notices from the driver and puts up dialogs, and writes entries to the SoftRAID log whenever anything important happens. It is always running in the background but isnвЂ™t required for your SoftRAID volumes to work. Like the sign, it tells you when things are slowing down, or there is a problem you should deal with. The SoftRAID Monitor is like the traffic sign at the side of the freeway that tells you about traffic conditions. It doesnвЂ™t have to be running for you to use a SoftRAID volume and is usually only used a few times a month. The SoftRAID application is used for setting up SoftRAID volumes and investigating problems. Even Photoshop tops out around 500-600 MB/sec before running into its own internal bottlenecks when saving or opening big files.SoftRAID is made up of three key parts: the application, the monitor, and the driver. Note that RAID 5 (striping with parity) and RAID 1+0 (striped pair of mirrors) offer fault tolerance, yet the performance level remains in excess of what most programs can benefit from or take advantage of. Consider that four solid state drives top out not much beyond this level in the Pegasus J4 the speed approaches Thunderbolt itself as a limiting factor. It demonstrates not only that the drives are fast but that the Thunderbay itself is an efficient unit that does not get in the way of performance. The performance is outstanding-using four hard drives, these speeds are exceptional. Results shown are real-world throughput through the file system API (not unachievable driver-level throughput). Tests performed using DiskTester, specifically the fill-volume command. The OWC Thunderbay was tested using four Toshiba MG03ACA300 hard drives. SoftRAID 5 beta was used in order to explore the performance of RAID 0, RAID 5 and RAID 1+0. Tested with the Thunderbay IV (Thunderbolt, not Thunderbolt 2). The Thunderbay performed admirably, as did the Toshiba MG03ACA300 hard drives, which offer very impressive performance. Tests shown here uses the fastest portion of the drives in order to show the peak speeds possible with the Thunderbay all hard drives slow down as they fill up, as per the simple physical fact of ПЂD (track circumference). Thunderbay RAID-5 edition also available. Various configurations starting at about $499 without drives.