I'm given to understand that Disk Utility in macOS Big Sur does not support RAID options other than RAID 0 and RAID 1. I've got a multi-drive enclosure that I'd like to setup for RAID 5. Are there any other options for doing this? I could do RAID 1 for multiple 2-drive pairs, but would prefer to have a single, large RAID 5 volume. Any ideas?
MacOS – RAID 5 options on macOS Big Sur
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Best Answer
MacOS's built-in RAID handling is limited. For decent RAID support, I recommend SoftRAID, which does RAID 0, 1, 4, 5 and '1+0'.
https://www.softraid.com
They've recently discontinued their 'Lite' version, and so it's a little more expensive than it was: but there's not much else.