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[Martin A. Brooks]

Jonathan Rockway wrote:
> I've heard of that happening with cheap consumer RAID.  The idea is that you 
> can't find identical replacement hardware, and therefore your data becomes 
> unreadable because the hardware stores data on the disks in some sort of 
> unknown way. 

In that event, you'd be restoring from your backups.

>  That's why I would stick with software RAID on my desktop 
> system... no reliance on some random Chinese vendor's RAID algorithm du jour; 

My only objection to software RAID, and I totally accept this is an edge 
case, is that it stops working when the operating system does.


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