was this a win10 machine upgraded from 7 by chance? On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 12:13 AM, George Skorup <[email protected]> wrote:
> WTF, is this fail Thursday? The HDD in my office PC went tits up today > too. Nope, no drive detected on that SATA port and won't spin up. OMG. > Swapped the board out from another identical drive. Hey, it's detected now! > Nope, clink, clank and it spins down. > > 250GB WD RE4 that ran for 5 or 7 years straight. I forget when I built > that machine. I had most of the stuff on it except for some scripts and > config files and a few really old pictures that are kind of irrelevant now > anyway. Oh well. > > > On 2/9/2017 10:17 PM, Nate Burke wrote: > > This is for a single, stand alone machine, very low storage usage, just > want to cover a HD failure. > > On 2/9/2017 9:42 PM, Josh Reynolds wrote: > > Agreed. > > Software Storage FTW. (ZFS, Ceph, GlusterFS, etc) > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 8:11 PM, Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 Well, RAID is obsolete.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 <http://www.ics-il.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> >> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> >> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> >> Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> >> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> >> The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> >> >> >> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> >> ------------------------------ >> *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 RAID 1 is obsolete.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? >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> >> > > > -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
