Hi all,
Planning to setup a motherboard RAID 1 for a lower end clone server.
A RAID card would be my first option but is locally is difficult to source for end users who don't buy brand name servers. I'm writing this option off, unfortunately. If I had the budget for a brand name server with warranty, I'd go with that.
My dumb (or perhaps bright) idea is to purchase a 2nd, identical motherboard so should the board fail, I can revive the RAID array inexpensively if things go wrong.
Grabbing a used 10th gen CPU further down the road if needed should be easy enough so I don't think I'll need to stock up on that.
As always, I do have backups (a local Synology, which backs up to another offsite Synology), but I am looking for uptime with this one.
Are there any potential issues with what I plan to do? Planning on running a 10400 with either B460s or H470s.
I plan to run some flavor of Linux (probably CentOS or OEL) or ESXi on this box.
I know Linux has mdadm but it won't work for boot partitions and this is precisely what I want fake RAID for.
For those that can chime in, how's AMD motherboard RAID nowadays?
TLDR: Any problems with moving Intel or AMD RAID1 to a 2nd identical board?
EDIT Ok was doing research into RAID cards online, seems generic or china clones arent so expensive after all...
Thanks!
Planning to setup a motherboard RAID 1 for a lower end clone server.
A RAID card would be my first option but is locally is difficult to source for end users who don't buy brand name servers. I'm writing this option off, unfortunately. If I had the budget for a brand name server with warranty, I'd go with that.
My dumb (or perhaps bright) idea is to purchase a 2nd, identical motherboard so should the board fail, I can revive the RAID array inexpensively if things go wrong.
Grabbing a used 10th gen CPU further down the road if needed should be easy enough so I don't think I'll need to stock up on that.
As always, I do have backups (a local Synology, which backs up to another offsite Synology), but I am looking for uptime with this one.
Are there any potential issues with what I plan to do? Planning on running a 10400 with either B460s or H470s.
I plan to run some flavor of Linux (probably CentOS or OEL) or ESXi on this box.
I know Linux has mdadm but it won't work for boot partitions and this is precisely what I want fake RAID for.
For those that can chime in, how's AMD motherboard RAID nowadays?
TLDR: Any problems with moving Intel or AMD RAID1 to a 2nd identical board?
EDIT Ok was doing research into RAID cards online, seems generic or china clones arent so expensive after all...
Thanks!
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