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Re:DigitalOcean lost our server by scurvy on Friday February 05, 2016 @02:44AM (#11040141)
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.

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Re:DigitalOcean lost our server by ekimekim on Friday February 05, 2016 @03:55PM (#11044543)
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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