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Hi there. So I recently upgraded my MacBook pro with 2 SSDs and managed to clone one disk with High Sierra onto a Raid 0. It works great and speedy (nearly 1Gbps read and write) and I can even perform updates within High Sierra. However, outside of that I really can’t do much else with the Raid, like bootcamp. I wanted to know if anyone out there has tried cloning their drive onto a Raid with bootcamp already installed. PS. Sure I can break the raid and have one drive for each… but when I have tried this I get errors related to there being 2 drives in the laptop. Apple does not make life easy
The only way I know of is using Sierra How to configure a software RAID in macOS Sierra’s Disk Utility. This is using HFS+ file system. Within High Sierra using SSD’s you need the newest release and you can only use HFS+ APFS is still not supported! OWC SoftRAID is the only way I know of to get High Sierra or Mojave to work, still using HFS+, APFS coming in SoftRAID 6.0 SoftRAID - Compatibility As for getting BootCamp to work. I don’t know of anyone getting it to work. But I could see someone setting up two partitions per drive and then setting up the RAID across under MacOS using SoftRAID (HFS+ or APFS) of the first set, then using Windows 10 straight up under the second set of partitions in using NTFS. You’ll then need to reboot to get into each OS, I think this is just too messy. I haven’t tried setting this up since Windows 7 so I don’t know if you even could get this to work with the newer MacOS’s. Given the complexity we opted not to roll this out.
