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LisPi<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://akko.wtf/users/ezio" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ezio</span></a></span> Not sure if you saw my post on the matter but uh... avoid <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/RAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RAID</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.top/@lispi314/110977299337341764" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.top/@lispi314/1109772</span><span class="invisible">99337341764</span></a></p><p>Software RAID isn't much better generally, it still (to its fault) relies on the hardware telling something is wrong.</p><p>That was only a sane assumption on specific hardware in the past, but relying on the firmware of the drives themselves? That was *never* a sane assumption.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/SoftRAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoftRAID</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/HardwareRAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HardwareRAID</span></a></p>
LisPi<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wikipedia</span></a> page on <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/RAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RAID</span></a> would need some love, really.</p><p>To explain for instance that <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/hardwareRAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hardwareRAID</span></a> used strategies such as inline <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/EDAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EDAC</span></a> appended to oversized sectors (512b vs 520b) so that <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/DataIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataIntegrity</span></a> could be assured regardless of the reliability or lack thereof from a given drive &amp; its firmware.</p><p>It's a lot more recent that these features were dropped for the ever-so-idiotic "more speed lol" reasons.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/ErrorDetectionAndCorrection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ErrorDetectionAndCorrection</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/ErrorDetection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ErrorDetection</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/Hardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hardware</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>