http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2008/01/17/converting-disks-from-apple-software-raid-version-1-to-version-2/ A Jack of All Nets' experience in the world of networked systems. Fri, 28 May 2010 01:32:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2008/01/17/converting-disks-from-apple-software-raid-version-1-to-version-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4906 Brian’s Brain » Blog Archive » Upgrading The Computer You’ve Already Got: Hard Drive And Power Thoughts Fri, 28 May 2010 01:32:37 +0000 http://www.networkjack.info/blog/2008/01/17/converting-disks-from-apple-software-raid-version-1-to-version-2/#comment-4906 [...] To be clear, SoftRAID isn’t a perfect panacea. The primary issue I’ve observed is that, as is the case with all of its other third-party developer ‘partners’, Apple seemingly provides SoftRAID no advance notice of O/S and application patch releases…some of which inevitably wreak havoc (to a greater or lesser degree) with the program and/or its all-important RAID driver. Since OS 10.3 is effectively mothballed, I feel pretty safe running SoftRAID v3.5.6 on it. However, for SoftRAID-converted OS 10.5, I’ll just need to be sure to make it a habit to wait a few days and monitor user groups for early-adopter angst before downloading any Apple-sourced updates. I’ll also need to hope that SoftRAID doesn’t ever go out of business (although in that case I could always regretfully convert my RAID set back to Apple v2 format). [...] [...] To be clear, SoftRAID isn’t a perfect panacea. The primary issue I’ve observed is that, as is the case with all of its other third-party developer ‘partners’, Apple seemingly provides SoftRAID no advance notice of O/S and application patch releases…some of which inevitably wreak havoc (to a greater or lesser degree) with the program and/or its all-important RAID driver. Since OS 10.3 is effectively mothballed, I feel pretty safe running SoftRAID v3.5.6 on it. However, for SoftRAID-converted OS 10.5, I’ll just need to be sure to make it a habit to wait a few days and monitor user groups for early-adopter angst before downloading any Apple-sourced updates. I’ll also need to hope that SoftRAID doesn’t ever go out of business (although in that case I could always regretfully convert my RAID set back to Apple v2 format). [...]

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