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wonmoi
10-27-2008, 11:14 PM
Are current NASes running on hardware or software RAID 5?
I understand that hardware RAID is more reliable in terms of data recovery in the event of disk failure however, its more expensive.

thiggins
10-28-2008, 06:46 AM
They run software RAID.

The primary advantage of hardware RAID is speed. There is no advantage that I know of in data recovery reliability.