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Comment by allanjude

1 month ago

RAID would only be able to recover if it KNEW the data was wrong.

Without a checksum, hardware RAID has no way to KNOW it needs to use the parity to correct the block.

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klempner  1 month ago

My point is that the most common type of failure here has the drive returning an error, not silently returning bogus data.

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