Laurence Perkins wrote: > I went with a couple of > https://www.amazon.com/MZHOU-Profile-Bracket-Support-Converter/dp/B08L7W8QFT/ > in a couple different sizes for two of my mass storage systems and they seem > to be doing OK. > > The difference between the cheap vendors and the expensive vendors these days > tends to be quality control. So plug it in, load it up, run it hard for a > few hours. If it doesn't die relatively quickly you're usually good. > > Especially if you have RAID with checksums it's difficult for a controller to > mangle things too badly even if it does have an issue. > > Remember: Data does not exist if it doesn't exist in at least three places. > So you still want off-site backups in case your house burns down. Especially > for irreplaceable things. > > If you have friends who also want off-site backups and you leave your > machines running all the time then tahoe-lafs is pretty decent. For that > matter they don't even have to really be friends, you really only have to be > able to trust them to not selfishly hog all the space. > > I use BTRFS RAID1 for a lot of stuff. So far it's been pretty good at > catching dropped bits and recovering from failures. It has a bit of the RAID > issue where a drive could fail while you're doing a recovery since it only > guarantees integrity with one dud drive regardless of the number of drives in > the pool. But since each chunk is only written to two drives instead of > spread across all of them the rebuild time stays relatively short and even if > another drive does fail you'll only lose some of the data instead of all of > it. This also means that the wasted space when your drives aren't all the > same size is kept to a minimum. > > ZFS and similar are arguably better for larger arrays, but are also more > hassle to set up. > > LVM is good for being able to swap out drives easily but with the modern, > huge drives you really want data checksums if you can get them. Otherwise > all it takes is a flipped bit somewhere to wreck your data and drive firmware > doesn't always notice. I think you can do that with LVM, but I've never > looked into it for certain. > > LMP
I looked at that card and read some of the reviews. Some claim they had issues but I suspect a driver problem. Can you do a lspci -k and see what driver it uses for that card on your system? If yours works fine, I'd want to use the same driver. That is a lot of drives tho. I need to build a NAS thingy. lol Dale :-) :-)
