Re: XRaid/Cinewave

I also wanted to add my 2 cents as well. The interesting about this XRaid at the conference is that it's running HD at a raid level 5 (or really 50).

The difference between raid 0, which is what most of us are using and raid level 5 is the redundancy factor. In level 0 the data is spread accross all drives evenly, which means that if one drive fails, you lose your data. Level 5 raid means that the data is placed on every drive within the raid and if a drive fails, you still have that piece of data on other drives, and it automatically recovers.

So, we now get a really cool-looking raid box, with better data protection all for the same price that we're already paying.

Now I just have to figure out how to buy one.