>> The integrity of the data with files after any issues such as these may be 
>> suspect, especially if the fileystem was on a RAID5 which is very well known 
>> for silent data corruption. This is why RAID5 should not be used.
> 
> OK that's possibly a whole separate thread for qualifying such a statement. 
> Apple has a supported product that uses RAID 5. I have clients with them and 
> they've lost drives, and no data, and no data corruption. And an even larger 
> sample size exists if filesystems other than jhfs+ are considered. RAID 5/6 
> are common with ext3, ext4, XFS and other file systems without anyone 
> suggesting RAID 5 in particular is known for itself increasing the incidence 
> of silent data corruption.
> 


There is a reason why it is called silent data corruption.   They may not know 
they have it.  It happens all the time and with HW raid 5 you may not even know 
it for a long time.

This is the whole reason why ZFS was 
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