SoftRAID Changelog

Added: Feature which warns the user if Secure Boot is enabled. This warning appears when the SoftRAID application is first launched, Secure Boot is enable and a SoftRAID disk is attached.

Added: Ability to sign up for the SoftRAID News email list.

Added: Work-around for a kernel panic bug which was introduced in macOS 10.15. This bug causes a kernel panic when an HFS+ volume is created on a 4Kn HDD (a disk with 4 KB sectors) which is housed in a USB 3 or USB 3.1 enclosure.

Added: Support for OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual U2 enclosures to SoftRAID XT and SoftRAID Lite XT.

Added: Feature when creating (or rebuilding) RAID 1+0 volumes, ensures that SSDs are always the primary disks, if the volume contains an equal number of SSDs and HHDs.

Fixed: A bug which could prevent the Mac from restarting after uninstalling SoftRAID.

Fixed: A bug which caused the SoftRAID application to be relaunched after a restart when the user had just uninstalled SoftRAID.

Added: Support for Traditional Chinese to the SoftRAID application and SoftRAID Monitor.

Fixed: A bug in the SoftRAID application which limits the size of reads and writes to NVMe SSDs to 128 KB.

Fixed: A bug which prevented a newly installed version of the SoftRAID driver from being loaded. This bug only occurs on macOS 10.15.

Fixed: A bug which occasionally causes volume corruption when creating or deleting volumes. This could occur when creating or deleting volumes on one OWC Accelsior 4M2 when a second OWC Accelsior 4M2 is installed in the same Mac.

Fixed: A crash which occurs when the SoftRAID application is first launched.

Fixed: A bug which prevents the Uninstall SoftRAID function in the SoftRAID application from working when running macOS 10.15.

Fixed: A bug which causes some volumes to not appear in the SoftRAID application when running macOS 10.15.

Fixed: A bug which caused a newly installed version of the SoftRAID driver to not be loaded by Mac OS. This could occur when running macOS 10.15.

Fixed: A bug in the SoftRAID application which causes newly created volumes to have incorrect creation dates.

Fixed: Removed test to see if the user is running macOS 10.15 with SIP enabled. You can now run the SoftRAID application on macOS 10.15 with SIP enabled as the bug which caused SIP to be incompatible with SoftRAID is fixed in the first supplemental update to macOS 10.15.

Added: Compatibility for macOS 10.15, Catalina.

Added: Support for upcoming OWC multi-drive enclosures to SoftRAID XT and SoftRAID LiteXT.

Fixed: A memory leak bug in the SoftRAID application.

Removed: SoftRAID Easy Setup application from the SoftRAID disk images.

Added: Support for localized update and upgrade feature lists in the Update Available window. This window is displayed in both the SoftRAID application and SoftRAID Monitor when a new version of SoftRAID is available

Added: Support for Akitio Thunder2 Quad and Thunder2 Quad mini to SoftRAID Lite XT.

Added: Support for Akitio Thunder3 Quad X and Thunder3 Quad mini to SoftRAID Lite XT.

Fixed: A bug in the SoftRAID application which can causes the “Zero Sectors” feature to fail. This would occur on NVMe blades which had 4 KB sectors and a maximum transfer size of 128 KB.

Fixed: A bug in the SoftRAID application which causes the “15 minutes” option to display twice when certifying disks.

Fixed: A bug in the SoftRAID application and SoftRAID Monitor which prevents SSDs with uncorrectable errors from being marked as predicted to fail.

Changed: SoftRAID Tool fatal errors reporting. These are now written to the SoftRAID.log rather than the system.log file.

Added: The ability to display OWC product registration page when a new ThunderBay 6 is attached to the Mac.

Added: Ability to work around problems in Mac OS which can cause applications to be quarantined by the Finder indefinitely.

Fixed: A bug in the SoftRAID Lite application which caused clipping in the more info text of the collect system info opt-in dialog. This was only visible when SoftRAID Lite was run with some non-English languages.

Fixed: A bug in the SoftRAID Lite XT application which prevented it from working with disks in OWC Mercury Elite Pro Quad enclosures.

Fixed: A bug in the SoftRAID Lite application which caused newly created or erased volumes to be write protected when running Mac OS 10.14.

Fixed: A bug in the SoftRAID Lite application which prevented the “no errors” string from being. displayed if a disk had not been initialized to SoftRAID format.

Fixed: A bug in the SoftRAID application and SoftRAID Monitor which caused some SSDs to be incorrectly marked as predicted to fail.

Changed: The way that SMART statistics are collected in SoftRAID Monitor. The new code checks SMART every time a disk is inserted rather than waiting for the next scheduled time for checking SMART.

Added: Protection from corrupted volumes caused by Mac OS kernel bugs.

Added: The ability to collect anonymous disk and system information and send it to the SoftRAID team. This will allow the SoftRAID team prioritize work on the features our customers use most. The user must opt-in to enable the collection of this data.

Added: The ability to collect anonymous SMART data from disks and send it to the SoftRAID. team. This will allow us to further improve our code which predicts disk failure. The user must opt-in to enable the collection of this data.

Fixed: A bug in the SoftRAID driver which could cause a kernel panic if a volume was unmounted and then unplugged. This would occur when running macOS 10.14 Mojave.