Quote Originally Posted by 'Fursphere',index.php?page=Thread&postID=71845#pos t71845
Redundancy - If your software boxing, and a computer crashes, you lose all or a major part of your team. Hardware - you just lose that one character.
This isn't as simple as you make it out to be. My toons are on different PCs, so if one crashes, I just lose that one toon, just like hardware. The one exception is that if my main PC crashes, they all go down. On the other hand, I can count the number of Windows crashes I've had in the past couple of years on one finger. And aside from me doing things I really shouldn't be doing, Octopus has _never_ crashed on me or bugged out in the middle of a play session.

I guess, like everything else, it is all highly dependent on your particular setup.