Parity in addition to fault tolerance.

[taltamir]

the rest of the system sucks to use? I am not planing on using the rest of the system, IT. IS. A. FILE. SERVER!

And I would hardly call the most robust and reliable, the greatest data security, and the cheapest implementation cost "trivial benefits"

 

[Nothinman]

the rest of the system sucks to use? I am not planing on using the rest of the system, IT. IS. A. FILE. SERVER!

But you still have to manage it and that means managing users, installing and updating packages, monitoring logs for problems, etc.

And I would hardly call the most robust and reliable, the greatest data security, and the cheapest implementation cost "trivial benefits"

I would, lots of awesome technology has fallen to the wayside because the presentation and usability was crap.