Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > This is RAID3, RAID4 is totally different. They are similar, at least in definitions I could find. Both use a dedicated parity disk, RAID3 stripes "bytes" while RAID3 stripes "blocks". Because geom_raid3 stripes at sector level, I think it's more similar to RAID4. Of course, I'm willing to be educated on the subject :)