Software raid with OS X 10.11

[Damien]

Now that Disk Utility has been stripped of all raid support what software is out there to make a software based raid?

Softraid is a bit pricey for the home user and the command line Disk Utility is a bit command linish

I am hoping there is another option somewhere...

[Damien]

I got this from Akitio

To learn more about the diskutil command, open the Terminal and enter man diskutil to call up the manual. Scroll down to the appleRAID section for more details about managing a RAID set. For example, to create a RAID 0 set with four disks, you would enter following commands:

1. In the Terminal, enter diskutil list to see a list of available drives. In this example we will use disk1-4.
2. Enter diskutil appleRAID create stripe RAID0 JHFS+ disk1 disk2 disk3 disk4 to create a striped RAID set.

My actual command in step 2 was diskutil appleRAID create stripe RAID0 JHFS+ disk0 disk1
this made my 2 internal drives into a raid 0. I boot from an external thunderbolt drive

[ricks]

Aren't you the clever little demon. Bravo.

[unclemac]

CLI for the win.

Will be interesting to see if any third party dev builds a front end for this, or if Apple adds it back in due to pressure....there is some gnashing of teeth out there regarding the feature removal.

[ricks]

Hard part for newcomers to CLI is identifying drives. It really sucks to format a drive with data on it.

[Damien]

Terminal is a scriptable app so it would be easy to write a simple and nearly featureless front end in AppleScript

[ricks]

Wonder if we could get Jazzbo to write it?

[Damien]

Jazzbo's would look better than mine that's for sure. I could probably get it done but it would be drag and drop with no progress indications and no safety

[unclemac]

Safety?

Where is the excitement with safety?!?


When in doubt, format!

[Damien]

Safety?

Where is the excitement with safety?!?


When in doubt, format!

I am old now. Safety becomes more important with each passing year.