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2019-01-10 Drives Full, Upgrading to OWC Thunderbay 6 with Six 14TB Drives (84TB total space)

2015-11-12 How to Use 32TB or 40TB of 8TB Hard Drives?

2015-11-11 Big, Fast and Fault-Tolerant Storage for Photographers and Videographers: 8TB Drives Singly or as RAID-4, RAID-5, RAID-10, RAID-0

2015-08-22 Deal on Big Storage for Photographers: OWC Thunderbay 4 RAID-5 Edition with Extra 4TB Drive

2014-08-04 Fault Tolerant Storage for Photographers or Videographers

2014-06-08 Software RAID and Fault Tolerant Storage for Photographers and Videographers (RAID-5, RAID-1+0, etc)

2010-01-20 RAID 5 for performance and reliability

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2019-02-16 When a Hard Drive Fails: Rebuilding a RAID-5 in SoftRAID

2019-01-24 OWC Thunderbay 6: RAID-5 Performance

2019-01-24 OWC Thunderbay 6 vs Thunderbay 4: RAID-5 Performance Options

2019-01-24 TESTED: OWC Thunderbay 6, RAID-0 and RAID-5 Performance

2019-01-24 OWC Thunderbay 6 vs OWC Thunderbay 4: What If 5 Drives Are Used for RAID-5?

2018-09-18 OWC Launches SoftRAID Version 5.7

2018-01-17 SoftRAID Updated to Fix Issue with macOS 10.13 High Sierra

2017-05-23 SoftRAID Updated to Version 5.6

2017-02-21 SoftRAID Updated to Version 5.5.6

2016-11-26 OWC 40TB SSD: RAID-4 vs RAID-5 from 32KiB to 512MiB Transfers

2016-11-26 OWC 40TB SSD Sequential Transfer Speed: RAID-4 beats RAID-5 by 16% for Reads

2016-11-25 OWC 40TB SSD: RAID-0 and RAID-4 Sustained Transfer Performance

2016-11-25 OWC 40TB SSD: RAID-4 vs RAID-5

2016-11-25 TESTED: OWC 40TB Thunderbay 4 Mini SSD with RAID-0 Stripe and RAID-4 Fault Tolerance

2016-04-11 OWC Announces SoftRAID 5.5: allows users to convert Apple RAID volumes to SoftRAID