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Old 04-06-2006, 04:02 AM   #2 (permalink)
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i believe raid 5 is essentially both raid 0 and raid 1. it has data striping but makes backups of your files as well (which in raid 5 doesnt slow down as much if I remember right), usually onto one or two backup drives. it's nice, but rather expensive since you'll need like 4 identical drives.
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