Also how futzing with disk arrays so often causes data loss. Storage is unforgiving and you absolutely want the simplest thing to set up - for data safety. Th

Also how futzing with disk arrays so often causes data loss. Storage is unforgiving and you absolutely want the simplest thing to set up - for data safety. The problem is that when you go to do recovery, maybe years after the thing was set up, it turns out the software has moved on and works differently and your storage media are in a state where at least one has failed and maybe more are dodgy, and if you have set something up with a few different interacting layers it is super easy to do the wrong thing and lose data. I’ve lost data to “clever” storage setups before and now I stick to the “happy path” (only run the most common, well tested configurations).