#hardwareRAID

2023-09-05

@ezio Not sure if you saw my post on the matter but uh... avoid #RAID.

mastodon.top/@lispi314/1109772

Software RAID isn't much better generally, it still (to its fault) relies on the hardware telling something is wrong.

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.

#SoftRAID #HardwareRAID

2023-08-30

The #wikipedia page on #RAID would need some love, really.

To explain for instance that #hardwareRAID used strategies such as inline #EDAC appended to oversized sectors (512b vs 520b) so that #DataIntegrity could be assured regardless of the reliability or lack thereof from a given drive & its firmware.

It's a lot more recent that these features were dropped for the ever-so-idiotic "more speed lol" reasons.

#ErrorDetectionAndCorrection #ErrorDetection #Hardware #retrocomputing

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