The question is a shopping question because it asks, and I quote: > Does anyone know of any RAID cards which can be configured to check > the parity of a redundant array every time data is read, and verify > all writes with a read to ensure that the data on a single disk didnt > become corrupt? As well as: > I am specifically looking for a controller which can verify on write > and check pairty on read. There is a history of [not allowing subjective shopping questions on StackExchange][1] (a rule more faithfully followed on some StackExchange sites than others). Yes, there can be a method of asking a shopping-style question that is acceptable. To quote that blog post: > However, there is a way to ask these questions that avoids the > inherent problems with shopping recommendations. For example, let’s > say you wanted — as I did — to buy a point-and-shoot camera that takes > good low light photos. [...] > > Q: What’s the best low light point-and-shoot camera? > > [...] > > Q: What’s the best low light point-and-shoot camera? > > [...] > > The former question provides the path of least resistance: a laundry > list of products I can buy without thinking about it too much. But > that answer will only be valid for a year at best. The latter question > may take some thinking, but its answer will be valid forever … or at > least until camera technology somehow shifts beyond lenses and sensors > as we know them today. However, the proper way to ask a shopping question is to not ask it like an explicit shopping question, but rather as a question seeking to understand how you determine what you need. Your question is not seeking to answer something along the lines of "How can I determine the necessary features in a storage card when my goals are thus-and-such?" Your question was explicitly seeking specific RAID cards, not methods to discover the proper technology to solve your problems. [1]: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/qa-is-hard-lets-go-shopping/