Back by popular demand (and because there is a new software update)...Tim Standing, who leads Mac software development at OWC, talks with host Cirina Catania about the latest SoftRAID version 6, which is now available for Windows as well as Mac. They discuss the ability to predict disc failure, the importance of certifying your discs, monitoring for health reports...and, of course, pizza recipes! It's informative and yummy. Join us!
In This Episode
* 0:30 - Cirina introduces Tim Standing, the team leader for Mac software development at OWC.* 1:06 - Tim talks about SoftRAID and how it can protect your data.* 11:30 - Tim shares the difference of what it means to certify, verify, and validate, and how to do these without damaging any data on the computer. * 15:00 - Cirina asks Tim about what's going on with M1 and the drivers.* 17:49 - Tim shares some of his interesting experiences when SoftRAID was released.* 21:48 - Tim talks about SoftRAID's blue, yellow, and red monitor lights and how it was designed to work.* 29:08 - Tim shares some latest updates about SSDs and SD cards, and why you need to certify SD cards.* 34:33 - Tim discusses what you can see on your disk tile.* 39:49 - Cirina asks Tim about the changes made in version 6.03 of SoftRAID.* 42:25 - Tim talks about his outdoor-dedicated-to-pizza oven, his pizza recipes, and how he serves his pizza to family and friends.* 50:14 - Cirina encourages the listeners to check out OWC's website to learn about the products that they offer.
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Transcript
Hi, Cirina. How are you?
I'm good. Hi, Tim. Welcome back to OWC Radio.
It's such an honor to be invited here. It really is.
It's always fun and I forgot to tell you, I really do want you to share a pizza recipe with us before you go. Don't let me forget that. Let me just introduce you. For people who have had their heads in the sand and may not know, you are the team leader for the macOS Software for all of that at OWC. You have been writing storage drivers for many, many years.
Okay. Someone who used to work for me went to work for Apple and he said, “If you ever start writing storage drivers, nobody will ever let you stop.” I wrote my first driver in ‘86 and I think almost every project I've worked on has been a storage driver of some sort or another. He was right. I thought he was crazy, but he was right.
You are doing a great service to all of us. What you do is so important. I want people to know more about SoftRAID. You recently did an update. But before we get into any of that, can you tell people what SoftRAID is for those who don't know?
A RAID, in general, is a way of combining multiple disk drives. In the early days of RAID, it either had multiple disk drives where each disk drive backed up every other disk drive, so you had multiple copies of the same data. Or you got super speed by putting all the data, spreading that out over multiple disks.
Just like you can get many more cars down a four-lane freeway than you can down a simple country road, it was exactly the same thing. Each disk was like a lane on a freeway. It could take that many things going down at once. Once you have more, then they were just going all at once, and that data will stream into many different disk drives at ...
