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3minutesOf: a bit of X-Ways and RAID

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Some days ago I was working on four images coming from a QNAP storage: so, four disk whose partitions were used to build up RAID volumes. " No problem " I said to myself, knowing that QNAP are *nix based and that XWF (X-Ways Forensics) is so powerful that I'll not need to switch on Linux. Which RAID? That's true, but you need to instruct XWF about which type and parameters the RAID is using. Easy again, let's find the configuration  raidtab file. Here is it:    raiddev /dev/md0     raid-level               0     nr-raid-disks            4     nr-spare-disks           0     chunk-size               4     persistent-superblock    1     device                   /dev/sda3     raid-disk                0     device                   /dev/sdb3     raid-disk                1     device                   /dev/sdc3     raid-disk                2     device                   /dev/sdd3     raid-disk                3 The third par