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but there's more chance of losing everything too.


How come?

I think for me there is no chance of getting data back from a Linux RAID 5 as I just don't know what I am doing. Is there a distribution that would offer me a better interface so I don't need to get too tehnical if the worst happens.

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I have several *very* high-end "hardware" RAID boxes here, and all of them use Linux software RAID internally.


I am very happy with my clarkconnect software RAID, it worked very well, it's RAID 5 that seems to be the problem, but I really want to give it a go as I want the max space out of the drives I have (read : need space!).

Cheers

Cris.