RAID with SATA - Page 2

mikegas · 4th Dec 2008, 09:36 AM

WD ShareSpace 4 TB Hard Drives ( WDA4NC40000 )

On Raid 5

Adrian Wong · 7th Dec 2008, 12:40 AM

I don't think there's a significant difference between the hardware and software RAID solutions, unless you get those with hardware controllers that offload the duty from the CPU. Otherwise, software RAID should work just fine. It just uses the CPU instead of a dedicated processor.

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