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hi there.

I'm the proud owner of a D5 Thunderbolt 3 DAS using it with macOS Catalina.

I've set my previous disks into caddies flawlessly, so far so good.
3 of them was used as JBOD. (1 SSD for data and 2 for TimeMachine alternate backups)
2 of them was RAID0 software formatted with DiskUtility.

I've not yet installed any software or drivers.
All drives mounted without any problems including RAID0 2 disks.

I've 4 questions :
1) My actual RAID 0 is MacOS Software Raid. If I use hardware raid will speed access improve greatly ? (I understand it needs erase first)
2) If this is a hardware raid why do I need a driver ?
3) If I hardware RAID 0 my 2 TimeMachine disk, will it be usable within TimeMachine as one disk ? (currently impossible with a software Raid).
4) Without any further installation (as is) my D5 is just in JBOD mode right now ?

Thank you and kind regards
Philippe

Hi, here are the answers for your questions:

1. In most of case, hardware RAID is faster than software RAID. Software RAID consumes resources of your computer when hardware RAID doesn't.
2. Many many hardwares need drivers, for example your USB mouse, keyboard, network card, sound card, and many more...;
3. Hardware RAID 0 configuration will only show one drive to your computer and to any other computer as soon as it has been set;
4. The factory defualt of D5 is SINGLE disk mode (you said JBOD), if you want the drive just works seperately and independently, you can let them be, you do not need to make any configuration with the RAID manager or other RAID software controller.

Hi and thank you for this input.

I've installed driver and web app.

About point 1, indeed it increase speed acess (see screen shot).
Point 3 test report tomorrow.

Thanks again and kind regards,
Philippe

hi again,

Some news about Point 3.

Indeed hardware Raid1 is recognized as a TimeMachine disk (at least with Catalina) as software Raid 1 was not.
This is cool !

I've one suggestions for the web hpt RaidManager :
Please set an option for displaying hard disks temperature columns in Celsius.
This will avoid to click details or make me maths...
Thanks.

Last word,
I've not been able to set mail alert, test failed with several attempts.
SMTP password seems not to be saved...
I've checked hptmailset.dat and ,if not hashed, I've not see it saved...

Any idea about this point ?
thank you and kind regards
Philippe

Regarding the RAID manager features, we will check and come back to you soon.