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Considering Linux as a software RAID solution, I wonder how many people in the world have intimate knowledge of Linux on a par with some of the contributors of this forum? I’ll bet not many. This is the reason why software RAID5 is not an option for me. Some of you make it sound so easy just to do whatever needs to be done to fix whatever problems might occur.

Again, the issues with administrating a RAID array are not unique to Linux. RAID5 failures will likely be just as complex to recover from regardless of the underlying O/S, or whether it's "hardware" or "software" RAID.

Just trying to keep things clear here for posterity (aka. "google").