Apple's latest OS 26 and OWC's latest SoftRaid 9 tout recovery from two simultaneous drive failures in a raid. Why do we need this and should I care?
ASKED BY · Roscoe Jones · MADISON, INDIANA · 29 SEP 2026 · ▶ 00:32:40
This is RAID 6 technology that allows recovery from two simultaneous drive failures; it requires a minimum of four drives and uses two parity drives, reducing total capacity but providing redundancy similar to what Synology and Drobo offer.
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32:23The next question comes in from Roscoe Jones in Madison, Indiana. And Roscoe says, Apple's latest OS 26 and OWC's latest SoftRaid 9 tout recovery from two simultaneous drive failures in a raid. Why do we need this, and should I care? Carl. all so yeah this has been being built into mac os for a long time i guess it's called raid six so there are other flavors from other companies have done this so sonology have their own flavor
32:55and i guess um drobo had their own flavor of this as well but essentially raid six requires i think minimum four drives i'm pretty sure i think red five is minimum three so raid six can have two two failures and you'll still have all your information there um obviously it uses uh two drives as parity drives or you know backup drives so essentially your data goes down a little
33:19bit um there are calculators you can just go into put in raid calculator and then choose your rate and it'll show you on google but yeah it's called raid six that's kind of the standard and then other companies have their own um proprietary versions on the same technology um and i believe that the Apple one would just be RAID 6. I don't think Apple does anything proprietary,
33:38but other companies like OWC and Synology and stuff like that, they may have their own proprietary wrapper on how this works. It mainly has to do with looking at health. So they have some proprietary stuff in there to look at the health of a drive to know when it's failing rather than just alive and dead. It actually has failing, change it now kind of thing.
33:56Dravo had the same thing in the past. Yeah, the idea here is really to just kind of bring it to parity with your Synologies of the world. You know, it's fairly common to have the ability to do dual recovery, right? Simultaneous failure of two drives at the same time. And soft rate is just catching up to that. Next question. Next question comes in from Chlalik Lopez-Waterman in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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