On 02/02/2016 05:43 PM, thibaut noah wrote: > Driver compatibility issues, i'm currently running 4.2.5 and i already > returned 3 cards who didn't have a compatible driver (tried for one week to > run the last one with the help of highpoint support but i returned it after, > didn't want to take the chance to loose my money since the allowed delay to > return an item is not that long).
And after all this bad experience just at the beginning, you still want to have a hardware RAID? Anything involving a custom driver will be a problem whenever you upgrade kernel or upgrade the operating system. An incorrect lock or synchronization (it happens easily on out-of-tree drivers) can destroy your data. If the driver is already in the kernel, you will not have these issues, but, you will certainly have to face others: - possibly slow BIOS scan (and "keep fingers crossed" config utilities) - possibly proprietary format on disk (if the controller dies, you lose the data) - excessive abstraction of disks from kernel (good luck running smartctl on simulated disks) As already suggested: evaluate a software-RAID (mdadm) setup. You will probably be convinced by what you'll get. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
