which RAID configuration<\/a>\u00a0you should set up. For my setup, I need fault tolerance and performance. This means I will continue to run RAID 5.<\/p>\nQuestion is, can I do better? There is software RAID available from Microsoft in Windows 10 called Storage Spaces. Also included with most Intel-based motherboards is a hardware RAID. So which should one choose?<\/p>\n
Turns out someone has done the analysis between them, and done a good job too. Long story short, stick to hardware RAID, and RAID 5 is still the fastest and most fault tolerant configuration.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/foxdeploy.com\/2015\/10\/30\/windows-vs-intel-raid-performance-smackdown\/<\/p>\n
My 3 brand new 4TB 7200rpm drives are about to thank me. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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