I ran the tests under Catalina 10.15.3 (Build 19D49f) on my late 2016 15" rMBP13,3. The 5TB disks were freshly erased and formatted as HFS+. With this unclear issue of which is best, DU or SoftRAID, I’ve spent a limited amount of time to see just what the differences are configuring RAID-0 on a set of 4x 5TB 2.5” Seagate BarraCuda 5400 RPM spinning disks in an OWC Thunderbolt 2 mini 4 enclosure (TB4m). I’m unclear what the basis is for this claimed 85%. In some articles I’ve read there’s mention that SoftRAID offers as much as 85% better RAID-0 performance than for DU’s RAID-0. SoftRAID for configuring RAID-0 for our MP7,1’s internal/external units in particular our Sonnet PCIe card with its 4x Samsung SSD/Flash blades. Today, I’m wrestling with the use of DU vs. The prospect of configuring RAID-5 using SoftRAID appealed to me for protecting against a single drive failure. #Softraid 6 xt fullI’ve been using Apple’s Disk Utility (DU) for ages and purchased a SoftRAID full license in Dec 2015 to handle RAID sets beyond what DU offered.
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