Hi.

Been digging and research as per title. i still don't understand benefits between those 2. Anyone with experience care to elaborate?

-hardware RAID more reliable than software RAID or vice versa?

been using dual bay RAID. hardware mode. and i realised that the new macOS Sierra support software RAID.
if, i buy, let say 4 bay hdd dock. means i can RAID all 4 of them in software mode? correct me if im wrong.

Thanks!

Mac has already discontinued software raid (Native) since El capitan. You will need a 3rd party software raid.

I would go hardware raid at this point of time.

Previously the difference wasn't much but hardware raid means more pcs/macs can share it. Software raid obviously is cheaper.

Cheers

Well, they brought back RAID in macOS Sierra tho.
Even in el capitan u can actually do RAID but only using Terminal in recovery.

I guess the performance wise are about the same right?

I didn't realised that. Good to know.

Yes, i tried in the past and the performance is about the same.

But both RAIDs are still not absolute failproof. Have to keep in mind that in case your data is important.