Re: What is the point of RAID?

[Mark Allums <mark@allums.com>]

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

> RAID is "old school"/"old guard", but it works very well.  I'm not a big 
> believer in ZFS, because I believe a separation between the filesystem and 
> block-device management makes the whole system for flexible and useful.

This is a good point.  I guess, like everything else, "it depends". 
Application, user, etc., etc.  I need something fairly foolproof and 
  also, fairly turnkey.  A well-thought-out and implemented RAID would 
work for me if the performance were adequate and an operator need do 
nothing on a red light but push a button, swap the drive, push the 
button again.  Alas, it seems it is always either too expensive or more 
complicated than that (or both).

MArk Allums