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Many causes of data loss affect all RAID drives equally from accidental deletion over power surges, fire, water damage, theft,....
I really, really liked @[email protected]'s answer, because even as I was reading it, I was thinking of things that they could have said—but didn't—which would have been easily rebutted. Those things fell into two basic categories: malware, and environmental effects.
Environmental effects like water damage and theft are a problem for any local storage, regardless of the technology. If it's a RAID, or an external USB drive, or even a NAS in your closet. The power surge is probably the best example of RAID not being backup, since it's very possible that one device might receive the surge but not the other, if they're connected to different outlets. But as for the other ones? Eh, I don't really buy it.
I have literally lost all data on a RAID6 of 12 drives since the power distributor in the server (the bit between the redundant PSUs and the rest of the system) got fried and took 5 out of the 12 drives with it.