Blog entries on RAID over File System (RAID-F)
March 2014
Hardware RAID disadvantages and the advantages of FlexRAID
Hardware RAID disadvantages
FlexRAID advantages
Conclusion
Hardware RAID disadvantages
Drawbacks of hardware RAID
Hardware RAID-6 constitutes a significant (and unnecessary) portion of investment to storage system.
Many hardware RAID controllers offer RAID-5 but not RAID-6. However RAID-5 is not suitable for storage systems due to its poor reliability.
Whenever required storage capacity is up to or exceed the combined capacity of 2 HDDs RAID6 is a solution to eliminate downtime in case of HDD failure. With redundancy enough to survive loss of one or two disks RAID6 […]
October 2013
Table comparison of Transparent RAID vs RAID over File System
Please also read:
RAID-F vs tRAID
Summary
As you can see, tRAID is not a replacement for RAID-F.
RAID-F makes some pretty compelling arguments.
Where tRAID wins over RAID-F is in that its real-time RAID feature is far more robust.
As stated above, please also read the detailed text comparison of Transparent RAID vs. RAID over File System.
