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?

  • @tobogganablazeEnglish
    5•3 months ago

    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.

    Buying SSDs with the same capacity as my NAS with 70TB (after raid 6) would cost almost tripple of what my setup (including the NAS) costs.

    So unless you shit money, SSDs are not an option for anything with a decent capacity.