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X-Raid or Raid-5
I am resurrecting an old NV+ V1, with four 2TB drives. Since I can never expand beyond this, it seems there's no benefit in X-Raid flexibility. Should I let it use X-Raid by default, or choose Flex...
pourpain wrote:
Since I can never expand beyond this, it seems there's no benefit in X-Raid flexibility. Should I let it use X-Raid by default, or choose Flex Raid-5?
It doesn't matter, as the underlying RAID mode will be identical. XRAID is easier to set up (no need to over-ride the RAID mode via RAIDar), so you might as well just use that.
Thank you. I have read in a few places (unofficial, not in the documentation) that X-Raid uses Raid 4. They also say that it is slightly better for sequential reads. I assume in practice it might not matter (this unit is not fast enough to make any difference?).
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