On 7/14/06, auditodd at comcast.net <auditodd at comcast.net> wrote: > I just started to play with FreeNAS. > If you have an old PC laying around, it works fairly well. > > My advice though, forget software RAID. Too unstable. > I had 3 80Gig drives set up with software RAID5 and we lost > power Monday night (yeah I know, I should have had it on a > UPS). RAID go bye-bye! :-) A quick Google of the situation > showed that it just wasn't worth my time to try and recover > the RAID or data since the data was backed up elsewhere. Why/How did the RAID fail? was it mid-write or something? Shouldn't that come out fine, as if they had been three separate drives in the first place? I've never done a lot of reading up on it, but I was under the impressions software RAID worked just fine.