Anybody tried the quietly introduced RAID6 and/or RAID6+ in the SoftRAID public beta? And, follow up, if you had x2 enclosures each with x6 8TB Iron Wolfs, how would you arrange them? I’m thinking 1 volume with RAID6+ makes sense?

@randy The pleasure was all yours No wait! The pleasure was all mine! Gin! :joy::rofl:

Yeah didn’t even realize the beta was needed until I tried to run SoftRAID and error pop up windows kept appearing. Then having to dig around on their website and into a forum thread to finally have what I need. It should be noted when purchasing the raid that if running Big Sur you’ll need to go a…

Ive enjoyed my experience with SoftRAID so far. I wish they were a bit more communicative with some stuff. For example, in a recent public beta…beta 48 I think? They finally brought RAID6 and RAID6+ functionality. I’ve been looking forward to that for about a year now, and, in the latest beta 52…

On the subject of Soft Raid 6 beta, I’m running it on a new 2019 Mac Pro with an OWC Excelsior 4m2 as RAID 0. Latest Mac OS 11.2.1 which I directly upgraded too as soon as I got the Mac a few days ago. So far Soft Raid and the frame-store seem to be working fine with just messing around in flame. …

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