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scurvy on Feb 5, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: DigitalOcean lost our server

You lose a RAID card as often as spinning metal disks? Sure that's not a wild exaggeration? Sure sounds like one. In 15+ years of doing this, I've only been a part of a RAID card swap three times. Once was just to be safe with an overly paranoid customer.

That said, I'm a fan of moving away from RAID. It's just more complexity in the face of a movement towards simpler architectures. The one benefit of a good RAID card: stupid fast, safe writes with a BBWC.

ekimekim on Feb 5, 2016 [–]

It may be. As I said, "it feels like" - I'm probably assigning some selective memory bias because when it does happen it's much more of a pain.

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