104: Software RAID on Windows 3.1
“Trust” seems to be a recurrent theme of the OpenZFS book. Here we discuss so-called hardware RAID.
All RAID is software RAID. Your hardware RAID controller runs a custom operating system to perform RAID tasks, and in the process obscures the storage hardware from the operating system. This made sense back in the early days of widespread commercial computing, when consumer operating systems could not be trusted. Spend three seconds contemplating OS-level software RAID on Windows 3.1, and you’ll understand why hardware RAID became ubiquitous. The computing ecosystem has changed…
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