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What benefits does a RAID subsystem provide for backing up data that a Firewire or a USB external drive does not?

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What benefits does a RAID subsystem provide for backing up data that a Firewire or a USB external drive does not?

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A7. When an external drive without RAID fails, all data is lost. Without RAID a failed drive can mean the loss of hours of irreplaceable creative output. RAID offers superior performance especially under heavy loads, stellar storage capacity, data availability and fault tolerance demanded by cutting edge digital content creators.