If it is for network attached storage I would recommend against hardware
raid and use btrfs or zfs. I have to many issues with corrupted raid
information on drives. The advances with these file systems make raid
almost obsolete.
On 2/9/2017 10:42 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
Drives are cheap. RAID 1 is obsolete. Buy 2 more drives and use something
like RAID 10?
AFAIK yes Adaptec and LSI are still the main players. I have one server with
Adaptec RAID but the place I ordered it from now seems to only carry LSI, not
sure why. Some of those cards can throw off a lot of heat and adding fans to
the chassis may make sense, especially if it's a 1U server, many servers don't
have all the fans populated by default and adding 1-2 more may not cost much.
-----Original Message-----
From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nate Burke
Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2017 10:18 AM
To: Animal Farm <[email protected]>
Subject: [AFMUG] Raid Controller Recommendations
I'm looking for a simple hardware raid controller to setup 2 drives in Raid 1.
The motherboard has the ICH9R controller which can do Raid1, but it looks like
the monitoring software isn't compatible with Windows
10 (I just bricked the box trying to install an older version)
It's been a while since I've purchased raid cards. I think my last one's were
3ware, which is now LSI. Are Adaptec and LSI still the main players?
