http://www.macnn.com/articles/03/09/02/softraid.3.0/
SoftRAID 3.0 for Mac OS X offers RAID support
updated 08:10 pm EDT, Tue September 2, 2003
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SoftRAID today announced the release of , a new Mac OS X version of the drive utility that supports stripe and mirror (RAID levels 0 and 1, respectively) volumes on any combination of FireWire, ATA, SCSI, USB and Fibre Channel drives. SoftRAID 3.0 requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later. A special "upgrade" price of $100 is available to everyone until November 1, 2003--after which it will be available for $130 (electronic) and $150 (retail CD). SoftRAID 2.2.2 users who purchased or upgraded SoftRAID after August 1, 2002 are entitled to a free upgrade.
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: Jul 2001
Gahhhhh! EVIL!!!
Get it away! Software RAID = evil.
You're just asking for trouble using these, take it from someone who had to reconstruct a client's failed SoftRAIDed data volume on their server-- it was set up before my time, I would have never recommended it. And the hard disk driver SoftRAID put on those drives would NOT release its icy grip on the drive for anything-- I had to nuke them both with Norton Wipe Info (do 'wipe device' and cancel it after it runs for about a minute-- that does the trick).
If you want RAID, just cough up for a hardware card that will do striping or mirroring.