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An internal part of the softraid application software#

mdadm checks that theĬomponents do form a bona fide array, and can, on request, fiddle superblock Mdadm has several major modes of operation:Īssemble the components of a previously created array into an active array.Ĭomponents can be explicitly given or can be searched for. Other normal arrays (RAID1 etc) can be created inside the container. So when mdadm creates a CONTAINER device, the device just represents the With a CONTAINER, there is one set of metadata that describes all of the arrays in theĬontainer. RAID5 over the first half of each device, and a RAID0 over the second half. For example, two devices in aĥ-device set might form a RAID1 using the whole devices. The set of devices may contain a number of different RAID arrays each utilising some (orĪll) of the blocks from a number of the devices in the set. This is similar to the set of devices connected to a hardware RAID controller. A CONTAINER is a collection of devices that are managed asĪ set.

True device that can be used to inject faults.ĬONTAINER is different again. Use the DeviceįAULTY is also not true RAID, and it only involves one device. Md/multipath as it is not well supported and has no ongoing development. Is a path to one common physical storage device.

An internal part of the softraid application software#

MULTIPATH is not a Software RAID mechanism, but does involve multiple devices: each device RAID5, RAID6, RAID10, MULTIPATH, FAULTY, and CONTAINER. Linux Software RAID devices are implemented through the md (Multiple Devices) deviceĬurrently, Linux supports LINEAR md devices, RAID0 (striping), RAID1 (mirroring), RAID4, Redundancy and so can survive some degree of device failure. Single device to hold (for example) a single filesystem. Multiple devices (typically disk drives or partitions thereof) to be combined into a RAID devices are virtual devices created from two or more real block devices.

An internal part of the softraid application full version#

For RAID-4 and RAID-5 and RAID-10, the full version of SoftRAID is required (also bundled with the various OWC RAID-5 edition products, like the OWC Thunderbay 4.Mdadm - manage MD devices aka Linux Software RAID

SoftRAID also has drive health and monitoring features, so MPG heartily recommends it.įor users looking for RAID-0 striping and/or RAID-1 mirroring, SoftRAID Lite is only $39. With the in demise of Disk Utility, now SoftRAID (or SoftRAID Lite) is the best and only choice for RAID on OS X, unless one enjoys the severe risk of wiping out the wrong drives at the command line (Terminal).

An internal part of the softraid application driver#

Since the driver is for OS X only, a SoftRAID RAID cannot be used on a Windows PC.

Moreover, the driver is on the RAID volume itself, so a RAID can be freely plugged on another Mac (without the SoftRAID application).

On OS X, the SoftRAID driver is already part of OS X, so a RAID created with SoftRAID means that it can be used on any Mac without installing anything.

This page shows how easy it is to create a software RAID-0 stripe using SoftRAID for OS X.

See general overview in Software RAID Creation in SoftRAID. Send Feedback Related: Apple macOS, RAID, RAID-0, RAID-5, SoftRAID, SSD, storage, Thunderbolt, video