OWC SoftRAID Lite and Lite XT RAID Software for Windows

OWC (Other World Computing, Inc.) announced SoftRAID Lite and Lite XT for Windows.

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This is the first time SoftRAID is available for Windows users, who now has a cross-platform solution and can share RAID volumes between OSs. Users who have previously purchased SoftRAID-5 Lite XT with company’s solution will receive this Windows edition for free.

SoftRAID is a RAID software platform that maximizes drive capacity, offers faster performance, and protects vs. data loss. It’s for voluminous data roles including audio/video production and editing, photography, graphic design, database servers, financial applications. Featuring a new, streamlined interface, users work worry-free with disks checked and verified before use plus early warnings prevent unexpected disk failure. New licensing of SoftRAID enables an unlicensed version of SoftRAID to still R/W RAID volumes, making it easier to move them between different computers and locations.

Highlights:

Flexible: create RAID-0, 1 volumes with SoftRAID Lite and Lite XT (Windows)
Verified: volume validation ensures sectors can be read, parity is correct, and volume failure is minimized
Certified: thoroughly scans drives before use to ensure they are safe for storage
Vigilant: early warning prediction helps protect vs. unexpected drive failure
Built-in MacDrive technology: SoftRAID Lite and Lite XT let users exchange arrays between Windows and macOS computers
Thorough: TRIM support improves internal and external SSD
Risk-free: 30-day free trial of fully functional application

With SoftRAID Lite and Lite XT, Windows users can create fast RAID-0 sets or secure RAID-1 sets, certify new disks before use, receive warnings when a disk is about to fail, and restore data quickly with fast rebuilding.

Unchain hardware RAID limitations
SoftRAID unshackles users from expensive hardware RAID technology that’s not up-gradeable or expandable. Users can spread volumes over 2 or more drive enclosures for mind-boggling performance over a single hardware RAID device. Additionally, it utilizes a computer’s processing power vs. the slow processors found in most hardware RAID enclosures. The result is a fast and flexible RAID array that doesn’t impact a computer’s system or applications.

Perhaps the biggest advantage of SoftRAID over a hardware RAID is that users are not locked into specific hardware in order to access data. With it, users replace a bad enclosure or upgrade, and the drives can be moved to that enclosure where data can be accessed without skipping a beat. In contrast, if a hardware RAID system fails and it’s out of production or no longer supported, all the data could be lost.

Security of monitoring
Getting work done quickly while keeping data safe is paramount. When it comes to protection, SoftRAID was designed to keep work worry-free. It checks and verifies new disks for errors before use, warns users when a disk is about to fail, and keeps users working if a drive is lost. These monitoring tools work in the background to ensure users are constantly protected from a catastrophic, project-killing data loss.

Cross-platform workflow consolidator
Sharing data between Macs and PCs has been easier. Built with MacDrive technology (an OWC software technology), SoftRAID allows users to create, read, and write HFS+ RAID sets on both macOS and Windows computers so don’t have to worry about disk formats again.

Improving proven history
While becoming a developer of external drives over the past 2 decades, the company began offering multi-drive units pre-configured with SoftRAID to offer customers enhanced storage capabilities. Because SoftRAID proved to offer many of the same attributes customers expect from company’s hardware, the firm acquired SoftRAID in 2014 so hardware and software teams could work together daily to create the easiest to use, most fully featured software RAID package available.

30-day risk-free trial
Sudden disk failure can cost time, money, and quite possibly business. Eliminate that risk by trying SoftRAID Lite free for 30 days and how it can protect mission critical data. Fully functional with no features disabled, this trial provides all the disk checking, monitoring and easy volume creation attributes that made SoftRAID a popular RAID setup and management app for years.

SoftRAID Lite is available for $49.99.

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