You've hit on one of my big pet peeves -- I am going to add redundancy and erasure codes at the application layer because the disk could catch on fire or be suc

You've hit on one of my big pet peeves -- I am going to add redundancy and erasure codes at the application layer because the disk could catch on fire or be sucked up by a tornado, so why do I need a bunch of unaudited software adding extra redundancy and erasure codes behind my back? I get it for desktop users... they want to open some benchmark they downloaded and get a higher number than their friends (RAID-0-esque sharding data across individual flash chips), and they also don't have access to software that can add error correction codes (because the Windows installer can't recognize an SSD with 4 flash chips as 4 drives in a RAID array)... so the disk has to do it itself. But why is it a thing in datacenters? Just so you can install Linux+ext2+MySQL and call it a day? That seems crazy to me when better storage software exists.