At 17:55 01/02/2016, you wrote: >The above about implementation of RAID is good. There were battery >backed up caching controllers 20 years ago. In the event of a power >loss, the cached writes could be completed later.
I run such one RAID Areca controller with 8 server disks in RAID6. Even after trying hard to make writes fail, I never had a single incident in many years. I'm sure many other users still run such setups today, no need to go that far back in time.