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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 th

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.

klempner 8mo ago
My point is that the most common type of failure here has the drive returning an error, not silently returning bogus data.