#Softraid vs softraid xt software

But you don't really need RAID at all as there are other approaches like just storing images on one drive and then backing up to another drive or to cloud storage which also achieves the big goal of making sure you don't lose your images with a single drive failure. And of course you can back up to more than one backup storage system whether or not you're running a RAID array if you want protection against multiple drive failures.

#Softraid vs softraid xt software

I haven't run or tested the Softraid solution but have tested various software RAID implementations over the years and have never really been impressed with the performance, particularly read and write speed performance of software RAID implementations. Maybe Softraid has found clever ways to overcome the performance hit but I'd check out the read and write speeds which can really slow down your image processing against hardware RAID solutions which are pretty cheap these days or consider just a fast primary drive and daily backup approach.Ĭlick to expand.When I purchased my latest computer system a couple of years ago, my local vendor configured everything to my specifications, so I'm afraid I cannot describe the installation process.

SoftRaid XT is an application, so it resides on my startup SSD in the applications folder.