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Does SoftRAID 3 support all FireWire drives?

April 26, 2017drives FireWire softraid support

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Does SoftRAID 3 support all FireWire drives?

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SoftRAID 3 fully supports FireWire 400 and FireWire 800. We have discovered problems with older generations of FireWire, so FireWire drives which use the older, slower LSI chipsets are considered too unreliable to be used with SoftRAID 3. If your FireWire drive uses an LSI chipset, such as early VST, LaCie, and other older drives, we do not recommend you use these with SoftRAID 3. In addition, if you have a Power Macintosh G3, there are problems with the built-in FireWire port when using RAID. It is highly recommended that you purchase a FireWire PCI card which uses the TI chipset, as the built-in FireWire on these machines will not be reliable under RAID conditions.