The SoftRAID Monitor has new code for sending out email notifications. Support for TRIM commands can be disabled in the SoftRAID preferences. Unlike most other RAID solutions, SoftRAID even supports TRIM on stripe volumes (RAID 0). This can dramatically increase the useful life of SSDs. The SoftRAID driver now supports TRIM commands for all brands of SSDs when running under Lion (Mac OS X 10.7). If you quit SoftRAID during one of these operations and then relaunch it the next day, SoftRAID will allow you to resume the operation where you left off. SoftRAID can now resume a zero, verify or certify disk operation. This results in a 10-15% speed increase of these operations. All verify, zero and certify disk operations now use larger blocks (up to 16 MB) on disks that support them. This results in 10 - 20% faster rebuilds. On SSDs, rebuilds can be 10 - 50% faster On disks which support larger transfer sizes, SoftRAID will perform mirror rebuilds in larger blocks (up to 4 MB). This change also speeds up all mirror rebuilds. The new algorithm uses 50-75% less CPU time than the one used in previous versions of SoftRAID. The mirror rebuild algorithm has been optimized to use less CPU time. This means that under Snow Leopard and Lion (Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7), the application will launch faster and be more responsive. All parts of the SoftRAID product now run as 64-bit code. We encourage Administrators to create scripts to alert them to potential issues with their disks before a failure occurs. SoftRAID 4.3 command line functions have also been improved. SoftRAID 4.3 improves support for SSDs (Solid State Disks) when TRIM is enabled. With this release, SoftRAID mirror volumes are now much more tolerant of disks which fail right in the middle of a read or write operation. SoftRAID 4.3 improves the robustness of mirror volumes. Users who have started up their Macs using SoftRAID RAID volumes can now apply Firmware Updates to their Macs. SoftRAID 4.3 adds support for Macintosh Firmware Updates. SoftRAID 4.3 is fully compatible with Mac OS 10.8 Mountain Lion.

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