Automation has quietly made storage failure an operations problem, not just an IT one. A decade ago, a RAID array going down meant a delayed report.
Today it can mean a robot cell with no vision-model history, an MES with no production record, or a SCADA historian with a gap where line diagnostics used to be.
The more a plant automates, the more of its operational memory sits on a handful of drives in a server room, and RAID, despite its name, was never designed to be the only thing standing between that memory and permanent loss. This is why having a RAID data recovery strategy is becoming just as important as having RAID redundancy. [Read more…] about Why RAID Failures Are Becoming a Bigger Risk in Automated Manufacturing