RAID 0 – Stripes Fastest RAID 1 – Mirrors Safest RAID RAID 4 – Dedicated Parity Fast and safe RAID 5 – Distributed Parity Any SoftRAID volume can have up to 16 disks. Five RAID Levels SoftRAID supports five levels of RAID optimized for speed, safety, or both. SAFER & FAST: RAID 1+0 FASTER & SAFE: RAID 4 & 5. (See the release notes PDF for more details and known bugs.) For info on macOS versions supported, see the SoftRAID Compatibility Notes. The first is a striped disk set, or RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) level 0.
Disk Utility in macOS Sierra adds the ability to create and manage disk sets.
