Reply to post: Re: RAID5 no longer has a role with hard drives

Super-slow RAID rebuilds: Gone in a flash?

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Re: RAID5 no longer has a role with hard drives

And the new kid on the block, erasure coding, only protects against hardware failures, like good ol' RAID, even if it can support more "parity" drives. ZFS ftw as it also protects against data corruption and bit rot.

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