Ah, yes, I was mainly thinking about non-mission-critical data, for example vast amounts of user-uploaded data for web sites.
You would have to be utterly crazy not to guarantee full redundancy on, say, a user database or business documents. However, it's quite a different matter to guarantee full 100% redundancy for, say, a few hundred TBs of user photos and videos. When you are offering a free service, it's difficult to make a business case for an incredibly expensive full-redundancy setup just to rule out an unlikely event which would maybe annoy a tiny subset of your non-paying users.
For example, I am not privy to Google's internal workings, but I very much doubt they have guaranteed full redundancy for every single video that has ever been uploaded to YouTube. Admittedly, they don't use RAID, they use a custom FS, but the principle is the same. The cost of absolutely guaranteeing so much (mostly low-value) data would be incredible, and I can't believe they would do it.
I've studied the systems of high-load social networks like Mixi and LiveJournal, and unless something has changed, they do not do it. I can't imagine Wikipedia has full redundancy on its images, or RapidShare on its user files, or Flickr, etc etc. Hell, there was an "incident" earlier this year when darling-of-the-blogosphere VC-funded Joyent, ironically using ZFS, were forced to admit they did not have redundant storage for data uploaded into not one but two of their *paid* online storage products. Something went wrong, the service was down for a week while they sorted it out, and they then decided to pull the product from the market rather than move to full redundancy since it would be too expensive. And that's when the customers were paying them!
http://www.joyeur.com/2008/01/22/bingodisk-and-strongspace-what-happened
So, it's not uncommon at all. I would actually be pretty surprised if any large percentage of the huge amount of bulk data uploaded to free services around the web was stored with the "enterprise grade" 100% redundancy you're talking about.
Databases and business documents, though, hell yes : )