It's a server, you don't put databases on non RAID drives anyway, that'd be sill...

gnaritas on Aug 9, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Principles of Sharding for Relational Databases

It's a server, you don't put databases on non RAID drives anyway, that'd be silly as the loss of a single drive would lose all your data. RAID setup isn't an option, it's how things are done by default for servers in order to ensure redundancy against a single disk failure.