New Accelsior 2 TB SSD in 2019 MP: Any advantage formatting with SoftRAID instead of Disk Utilities?

[JoeM]

Got the 2 TB Accelsior for my projects drive and am not looking to partition it or use it for RAID redundancy. I'll be cloning with CCC for backup to an external drive. It looks like the SSD is using 881.8 MB as shipped. I expect a good amount of that is SoftRAID.

If I format with Disk Utility I can reclaim some or most of that space for now and if I want to use SoftRAID in the future, I could just download it and use the license that came with the drive. Is there any benefit in using SoftRAID over Disk Utility, considering I would just be using type 0 formatting?

TIA

[mattkime]

I wouldn't think so.

[JoeM]

mattkime wrote:
I wouldn't think so.

Thanks, I didn't think so either but figured I would check before I deleted it.

[jdc]

What did OWC say? They have chat...

If you did leave it on, you would only have 1,999,119 MB left... =)

[JoeM]

OWC chat basically said I could delete it and format with Disk Utility and that I have a license included in the box so I could download from their site at a later date if I decide I want to add a RAID. Most people I know don’t use a RAID for DAW work and articles I’ve read from audio guys merely had them formatting with Disk Utility. Wasn’t sure if there was anything to be gained by formatting to RAID 0 using the software as I wasn’t aware of it before purchasing the SSD.

[jdc]

RAID in the platter days might have made sense.

But in the space of just a few short years drives have gone from platters at 100 MB/sto SSDs at 500 MBs to flash drives at 6000 MB/s -- so I think RAID has gone the way of the dodo.

I used DU with my RAID 0 and two 3 TB drives. Now going on 4 years of 10+ hour a day use.

[JoeM]

jdc wrote:
RAID in the platter days might have made sense.

But in the space of just a few short years drives have gone from platters at 100 MB/sto SSDs at 500 MBs to flash drives at 6000 MB/s -- so I think RAID has gone the way of the dodo.

I used DU with my RAID 0 and two 3 TB drives. Now going on 4 years of 10+ hour a day use.

jdc, while I’ve always understood why some needed the redundancy, I’ve never needed or used it myself. Good to know DU is good enough for your use. I’ve always used it myself. Thanks for the info.

[jdc]

RAID can be more than redundancy... my RAID is a 0 -- for speed. My HDD RAID gets benchmarks over 300 MB/s, single drives cant do that.

I really didnt post a clear thought -- I was thinking "RAID 0" might have made sense for audio guys to help speed up R/W rates not long ago... but now SSDs and flash drives have made some RAIDs unnecessary.

[Sarcany]

jdc wrote:
RAID in the platter days might have made sense.

But in the space of just a few short years drives have gone from platters at 100 MB/sto SSDs at 500 MBs to flash drives at 6000 MB/s -- so I think RAID has gone the way of the dodo.

Plain striped RAIDs at lesser capacities, maybe.

But I've got a RAID6 for my video RAID and a Drobo for backup, both using classic spinning-platter drives and there's no substituting with SSDs at this time.

[jdc]

Sarcany wrote:
Plain striped RAIDs at lesser capacities, maybe.

But I've got a RAID6 for my video RAID and a Drobo for backup, both using classic spinning-platter drives and there's no substituting with SSDs at this time.

Yeah, prob more instances Im not thinking of too. sorry I keep posting before finishing thoughts. Distracted right now.

Ive long contemplated a RAID 5 for my data for both speed a redundancy, but havent decided its worth the expense. It would essentially just consolidate 2 drives into one case... but seems overkill for my needs.

Definitely getting a new iron this year, and how I handle external storage with having cheap access to TBolt via USB C is going to make me rethink, but thats for another time.