Originally Posted by
Nyda
Which is a major point for the most of its potential users - which would not be sysadmins but homeusers who wouldn't want to lose their data. I.e. my dad with his 50GB of digitized holiday/vacation/birthday/wedding/... photos (which took him half a year to scan). He's backing them up manually now and doesn't have the first clue about "RAID-what(!?)".
I know he'd get one of those "raid-ssd"s if he could simply plug them in like a normal HDD and never think about it again. Twice the price, no matter.
Absolutely inconsequential for most users. I don't want to throw out numbers here, so I'll go with "most" and I think we can agree on this: PC's are pretty much in every home today. They are a tool for most people now, used for home-shopping, email, printing and the occasional game. Bought in the shopping mall by people who'd ask you "raid-what? where?". Everyone has data that he wouldn't want to lose.
This would obviously depend on the implementation. If the media were replaceable, neither would be true.
No. Don't project your curious, knowledge-seeking programmer's mind onto everybody else. You're making assumptions based on your personal interest, but most people really couln't care less how their computer works - as long as it does.