Why wouldn’t you? It is the most flexible out if all of them.

It depends on where you go. You probably don’t need much in terms of space and features.

Your information is about 10 years out of date. It is trivial to do boot with raid as in EFI you just set both drives as bootable.

I think hardware raid is only for the last resort as Windows has Storage sense and Linux has ZFS, LVM and mdadm. I’ve never heard of a hardware raid system that has the features a lot of these systems have like data integrity checking and ram caching.

Essentially I don’t really see a need for hardware raid in a home environment and there isn’t a huge need in the business.

Kind of yes. However if you want home ownership at a reasonable cost that’s the way to go. It doesn’t need to be in the middle of no where but it doesn’t need to be in the upper tier locations.

I’m talking much later in life when some of the basic things become a little harder but still doable. You move into an apartment that is for older folks.

You downsize to a small apartment for older folks.

I hope it is obvious but please don’t feed the wildlife

Don’t use 192.168.1.x

Don’t approve

Well you know what you got to do. Bring out your inner Genghis Khan

My current device has that (2019 Motorola)

I want my fingerprint sensor to squeal

You technically can with software raid

Not to mention you can get important features like checksums and data validation.

At some point you need a clean room

Why wouldn’t you just use software raid? It is way more robust and if you are using ZFS you get all the nice features that come as a part of it.

Frankly hardware raid is dead and was never great. Software raid is significantly better.

Not to mention hardware raid is dependent on a functional card. You are in trouble if the card has problems. Also hardware raid doesn’t do data validation

You are describing software raid which is the only thing really used these days. There are so many issues with hardware raid.

You really do not want hardware raid. You want software raid like LVM or better yet, ZFS.

Do your own research. Keep in mind raid isn’t a backup. It is only for convenience.