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Old 12-23-2007, 05:57 PM   #8 (permalink)
Cromewell
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RAID5 is striped but it has data security as well, you can lose 1 drive and still be able to rebuild the array. Parity data is spread across all drives, if 2 or more drives fail you will lose data.
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