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Is RAID still needed? (programming.dev)

submitted 8 months ago by Clydesdalecrusher@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Me and my friend were discussing this the other day about how he said RAID is no longer needed. He said it was due to how big SSDs have gotten and that apparently you can replace sectors within them if a problem occurs which is why having an array is not needed.

I replied with the fact that arrays allow for redundancy that create a faster uptime if there are issues and drive needs to be replaced. And depending on what you are doing, that is more valuable than just doing the new thing. Especially because RAID allows redundancy that can replicate lost data if needed depending on the configuration.

What do you all think?

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[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Hardware raid can 100% do any of the above tasks, and has always been able to do them. You need an actual raid card, not some half assed baked in mobo raid.

Hardware RAID was doing all of the above before software RAID was available to end users.

[–] winnie@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I wonder how to detect real raid card from simple switch? I guess to look at price and it should be really high?

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Most discrete raid cards will do the job, but look for on card caching and a battery for "quality."

[–] winnie@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

But AFAIK real RAID don't perform CRC, thy rely on drive to report bad sector. In case if on one drive data got corrupted, it would return data from one drive or another. In case of mirroring. If we aren't talking about RAID 6 I think.