I went to SoftRAID and hardware RAID solutions and never looked back. Looking back at some of the support pages, it looks like it was a gradual process over Sierra - so that's cool. Most RAID management features were readded with Sierra over 2 years ago.Īpple has a knowledge base article with the steps For creating disk sets with Disk Utility in High Sierra and Mojave here The ability to make a software RAID from the command line was never removed (or “stripped from macOS in the author’s parlance). Due to some “makeover” work for Disk Utility in El Capitan, the GUI version of Disk Utility did indeed have the features for RAID management (including creation of Software RAIDs) altered and reduced. LaCie Rugged Mini 2 TB External Hard Drive Portable HDD USB 3.0 USB 2.0 Compatible, Drop Shock Dust Rain Resistant Shuttle Drive, for Mac and PC (LAC9000298), Aluminium, Orange 4. I’m not sure exactly what is meant by this rather vague statement, but if the allusion is to MacOS’s ability to create a software RAID, this is not only out dated info, but was only ever half true to begin with. Using OWC's SoftRaid to give back RAID support that was stripped from macOS
