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Think twice before committing to X-RAID or RAID-5. What is your recovery plan?
TL;DR: Because I chose RAID-1 over X-RAID, I easily survived a disk failure. I'm back to having a working RAID-1 array, with no loss of data, no support contract, no data recovery fees, no proprietar...
The best news is that you avoided data loss :smileyhappy:
I agree it is important to think through your backup/recovery plan when you plan your installation. I think your assessment of RAID-1 is accurate - easiest to recover, at the cost of 50% overhead for redundancy.
I use XRAID myself, and I maintain good backups on several devices (and also one backup in the cloud - Crashplan).
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