http://blogs.msdn.com/czhower/archive/2006/08/13/697231.aspxEveryone knows software RAID is slower and because of this most RAID installations are using hardware RAID controllers. But most RAID controllers require special software drivers. And in many cases, that is just the start of your troubles. I just builten-CACommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/czhower/archive/2006/08/13/697231.aspx#698896Mon, 14 Aug 2006 04:33:52 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:698896afsinahave you ever heard of Raid-Z and ZFS? <br> <br><a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/bonwick?entry=raid_z">http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/bonwick?entry=raid_z</a>http://blogs.msdn.com/czhower/archive/2006/08/13/697231.aspx#702266Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:04:50 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:702266Chad Z. Hower aka KudzuInteresting, but would still not be appropriate to my case. No matter how efficient the software, software is a week link in restores, and especially recovery and multi booting. I needed a hardware only solution. <br> <br>Also he makes some valid points, but he also omits the weaknesses. It may be only 700 lines of code, but it depends on the file system adding a whole layer of complexity. If anything happens to the FS, you cannot recover your RAID data, and there are other such issues introduced by introducing such a huge additional external factor. <br> <br>That being said, in some applications it certainly looks useful <br>