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OWC Tim

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Vice President of Software Engineering, Mac

Tim Standing has been writing drivers and storage utilities for Mac OS since 1986. He is the creator of SoftRAID for macOS and is currently VP of Software Development - Mac at Other World Computing, Inc. He has patented a write acceleration technique that enables the write speed RAID volumes to be as fast as the read speed. Tim's team is responsible for SoftRAID, OWC Dock Ejector, OWC Drive Guide, and all Mac drivers and utilities that make OWC products exceptional. When he's not writing code, he's creating delicious pizzas in his wood-burning pizza oven.

SoftRAID 6.2.1 Better Than Ever

February 23, 2022

SoftRAID 6.2.1 is now better than ever. This detailed list features the highlights of what was fixed in the latest release.

macOS Beta No Longer Required When Using SoftRAID on M1 Macs

April 29, 2021

What Apple broke in macOS Big Sur 11.2 With the release of macOS 11.2, Apple introduced a bug in the kernel which prevented the SoftRAID driver when running on M1 Macs. While Apple had this fixed in a beta release...

What’s Happening With SoftRAID on M1 Macs?

April 6, 2021

Over two months ago, I wrote about the bug Apple introduced into macOS 11.2 that prevented the SoftRAID driver from loading on M1 Macs. Here is where things stand.

Performing a Factory Reset on Your M1 Mac to Regain Access to Your SoftRAID Volumes

February 8, 2021

UPDATE: April 28, 2021With the release of macOS 11.3 yesterday, Apple has now fixed the bug that prevented the SoftRAID driver from loading on M1 Macs. After updating to this new macOS release, the SoftRAID version 6 driver will load...

SoftRAID Comes to the M1 Macs

December 21, 2020

The latest beta release of SoftRAID 6 now supports the M1 Macs. After several weeks of investigating a kernel panic bug we were seeing in the SofftRAID driver, we reached out to Apple's kernel engineers for help. This kernel panic...

Writing Code With Apple’s New M1 Macs – How Does it Stack Up?

December 16, 2020

If you have read my other blog posts, you will already know that I'm pretty enamored with the new M1 Macs. The first one that entered my life was the 2020 M1 MacBook Air I purchased for my daughter, who...

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