43+ Hardware Raid Vs Software Raid Performance PNG. So far, we have seen the two raid implementations and the advantages and disadvantages of each. Raid is not a backup solution.
Nobody seems to use software raid, at least in what i've run into.
A straightforward guide to hardware raid, hbas, software raid and fakeraid for users researching options. How to protect your data using zfs. The differences are that hardware raid has some very handy hot swap features that are really hard to do without special hardware support and software raid is simpler, more robust and has access to vastly more. Computers are replaceable but once your intangible data is lost, it is gone forever.