Unfortunately for RAID 5, there are some controllers and available guides that default to this RAID type, regardless of drive ...

As useful as a NAS can be, it's also hardware that's really expensive to set up—a good NAS with several terabytes of storage ...

I'm slowly assembling the components for a new home server. My plan for the system so far is as follows: The plan is to use the two system drives in RAID 0 for redundancy, and then build a RAID 5 ...

edit: actually, I realize this isn't specific to ZFS as a file system, and it probably behaves the same way in this regard as a hardware RAID, or software RAID for any OS, not just *nix-based ones. So ...