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Cc: Howard Jones <howard.jones@network-i.net>, FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org,
	Valentin Bud <valentin.bud@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: FreeBSD & Software RAID
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> but of course lots of people like to make their life harder
>
> No I am not making life harder at all ... I have 6x500gb hard disks I
> want in a good solid raid 5 type configuration. So you are somewhat wide
> of the mark in your assumptions.
that's a reason. just don't forget that RAID-z is MUCH closer to RAID3 
than RAID5. so you get random access speed of single drive, just higher 
transfer.