Pocket wrote: > > Many reasons........ > > If the RAID controller bites the bullet you are usually toast unless you > have another RAID controller (same manufacturer and type) as a spare.
mdadm, zfs and btrfs all lack this problem. > I have zero luck replacing one companies raid controller with another and > ditto on raid built into the motherboard. As above. > I really don't need any help losing my data/files as I do a good job of that > all by myself ;) btrfs and zfs have snapshots which really help avoiding losing data. On other machines, rsnapshot is often suitable. > I found it is better to just have my data on several backup disks, that way > if one fails I get another disk and copy all the data to the newly purchased > disk. RAID isn't a backup solution, it's a way of keeping things going until you have time to restore. (And also a way of improving performance and/or manageability.) If you don't need or want it, you shouldn't use it. Same as any tool. -dsr-
