And as a daily losing proposition, hardware RAID has long had inferior performance compared to SoftRAID. Not so with SoftRAID-any enclosure will do. For most uses, the modest performance gains with RAID-0 striping (no fault tolerance) is not going to be worth the risk of drive failure (at least with hard drives).įor RAID, use SoftRAID in an OWC Thunderbay since failure of a hardware RAID can be a very painful experience when the enclosure fails-it might not even be available any more and with the drives for hardware RAID using proprietary formatting they are useless in any other enclosure without reformatting. Would be good to know if you find that out at some point, but bailing on the Mac Pro might be wise.ĭIGLLOYD: using RAID-5 is plenty fast these days and the best way to avoid RAID issues as it offers fault tolerance. My friend Bob is a video guy, and doesn’t know about whether eGPU is available in Photoshop or Lightroom. Considering selling 2013 Mac Pro for a 2018 Mac mini. Long story short is I had a RAID failure and got me thinking about all of my old-ish gear (chain below if you’re inclined to read). SEND FEEDBACK Related: 2018 Mac mini, Adobe, Adobe Camera Raw, Adobe Camera Raw Enhance Details, eGPU, GPU, Lightroom, Mac mini, Photoshop, RAID, reader comment, SoftRAID, video Reader Darren K writes:

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