Hardware RAID is indeed for suckers. ZFS or something like that for the win.
Well, RAID is obsolete. You shouldn't even be running RAID controllers with ZFS, only HBAs. The file system is far more intelligent and capable than a hardware controller. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trey Scarborough" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2017 8:07:24 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Raid Controller Recommendations 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 RAID 1 is obsolete.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? > > >
