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These are not RAID enclosures, just JBOD enclosures. Can I use Big Sur to configure these drives as RAID 0, or will I still need SoftRaid? I have no idea what RAID capabilities Big Sur's disk utilities have, if any. I don't need any other RAID configurations other than RAID 0. I don't mind reconfiguring the drives they are all backed up with second copies. I just do not want to use Softraid for myself. Even though I have many OWC RAID devices I always pick hard RAID devices. My most recent one is the Mercury Elite Pro Dock with two 16TB drives on RAID 0-my preferred RAID setup. I have multiple other RAID devices split by RAW USA by location, RAW Europe by location, C1 Sessions by year (all three of these on OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual-(some 16TB or 14TB or 10TB) and C1 Sessions by location. Other old RAID machines backup all these just mentioned (just in case) since I live in FL the lightening capitol of the US. I also keep all of the aforementioned RAID on 4TB Samsung 2.5' SSD drives in a bank vault which I rotate from time to time.

#SOFTRAID UPGRADE UPDATE#

#Softraid m1 updateĪnd if that is not enough I also have backups of aforementioned on Samsung 2TB SSD which I keep here and update as changes occur. Yes I am crazy about backups since in Hurricane Andrew in 1982 I lost 25 years of slides (pre digital) since our house had a 12 foot tidal wave go through it. I used to travel to 95 countries (mostly out of Paris and NYC before that) and not having those images still haunts me at times.Īs a testament to Graham's SSD failure comment, years ago (yes I am paranoid) I used to travel with 3 independent OWC SSD (the best ones). I would back up 3 times to these 3 devices every night after capturing during the day giving me the original CF or SD card plus 3 backups.

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