Comments on: Giving RAID the thumbs up http://thestoragearchitect.com/2007/04/04/giving-raid-the-thumbs-up/ Storage, Virtualisation & Cloud Wed, 16 May 2012 18:04:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Chris M Evans http://thestoragearchitect.com/2007/04/04/giving-raid-the-thumbs-up/#comment-46 Chris M Evans Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:30:00 +0000 http://thestoragearchitect.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/giving-raid-the-thumbs-up/#comment-46 OK, I see your point, however I diagree that it's not worth the hassle to the average user. I suspect very few people actually back up their data on a regular basis and (excluding finger trouble etc) as drives are so large these days, people are committing a huge amount of valuable data they'd be heartbroken to lose should their HDD crash. I do agree that we need industry solutions to the backup issue; RAID solves the equipment failure part but not the corruption and user problems. OK, I see your point, however I diagree that it’s not worth the hassle to the average user. I suspect very few people actually back up their data on a regular basis and (excluding finger trouble etc) as drives are so large these days, people are committing a huge amount of valuable data they’d be heartbroken to lose should their HDD crash. I do agree that we need industry solutions to the backup issue; RAID solves the equipment failure part but not the corruption and user problems.

]]> By: Cuyler http://thestoragearchitect.com/2007/04/04/giving-raid-the-thumbs-up/#comment-45 Cuyler Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:06:00 +0000 http://thestoragearchitect.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/giving-raid-the-thumbs-up/#comment-45 I think you missed the point of the article when you said "I use RAID on my server...". The point of the article is not that RAID doesn't work - it's just not worth the hassle work with the average desktop user who heard the word "RAID" and now wants it. The 'errors' that the original article quotes are not from RAID failures but from when users see a degraded RAID and don't know what to do. Of course, I use raid myself with my server holding a TB of data that wouldn't be easily backed up.<br/><br/>One thing the industry needs to deal with is the increased amount of data the common user is creating (iMovie projects, digital photos, etc...) and not having a user-free way of ensuring it's safety. I think you missed the point of the article when you said “I use RAID on my server…”. The point of the article is not that RAID doesn’t work – it’s just not worth the hassle work with the average desktop user who heard the word “RAID” and now wants it. The ‘errors’ that the original article quotes are not from RAID failures but from when users see a degraded RAID and don’t know what to do. Of course, I use raid myself with my server holding a TB of data that wouldn’t be easily backed up.

One thing the industry needs to deal with is the increased amount of data the common user is creating (iMovie projects, digital photos, etc…) and not having a user-free way of ensuring it’s safety.

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