How to Protect Your Data Using ZFS
A question often asked in the server industry is, ‘what’s better - software RAID or hardware RAID?’ If you research this topic, a lot of the information about RAID suggests that a hardware RAID card is preferable to using a Software RAID. But I don’t agree. In my opinion is that, for most applications, Software RAID is far better than hardware RAID. Hardware RAID does have a place under certain OS’s, but I’m going to tell you why Software is generally far superior.
