What is volume safeguard and why should I use it?

SoftRAID volume safeguards protect you from accidentally destroying a volume which contains files that you need. When you enable the safeguard on a volume, SoftRAID prevents you from doing anything to the volume’s disks which would destroy the volume. For example, you cannot initialize or certify a disk if any of the volumes on that disk contain a safeguard. SoftRAID also prevents you from deleting or erase a volume with a safeguard.