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RAID card recommendation?
- Thread starter drnick5
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IMHO if this is for a home or SOHO level thing, use a NON raid card and linux and ZFS on top of linux software raid (can't remember the name of the package right now).
Honestly I will admit for the most part I am a total windows fanboy, but windows software raid SUCKS, for anything other than mirrors. Linux software raid is actually pretty bad ass, or can be. Very flexible and dynamic, as well as fast.
That way, 5 years down the line when the CARD dies, you can still rebuild your stuff. You are not 'married' to any specific hardware. With a modern CPU you can do raid5/6 parity as fast or faster than a hardware raid card anyways.
I know it's 'fun' to go buy the big expensive h/w raid controller, but it may not honestly be your best solution in this case. (Which you didn't make 100% clear above so I am assuming you are talking SOHO and smaller)
BTW, In a full on enterprise situation in a controlled environment data center with real, proven solutions (not home brew slapped together stuff) I would have a totally different opinion.
Honestly I will admit for the most part I am a total windows fanboy, but windows software raid SUCKS, for anything other than mirrors. Linux software raid is actually pretty bad ass, or can be. Very flexible and dynamic, as well as fast.
That way, 5 years down the line when the CARD dies, you can still rebuild your stuff. You are not 'married' to any specific hardware. With a modern CPU you can do raid5/6 parity as fast or faster than a hardware raid card anyways.
I know it's 'fun' to go buy the big expensive h/w raid controller, but it may not honestly be your best solution in this case. (Which you didn't make 100% clear above so I am assuming you are talking SOHO and smaller)
BTW, In a full on enterprise situation in a controlled environment data center with real, proven solutions (not home brew slapped together stuff) I would have a totally different opinion.
This is something im using in my office. We built a San using OPEN-E 2 yeas ago out of a 1u box with 4 - 1TB drives. we've just about filled that up and are looking to add a 12bay JBOD and put in 4 2TB drives (for starters).to increase the storage pool of our san. The performance doesn't need to be super fast as most of the data is for backup purposes (our own and some of our customers)
Right now in the 1U the drives are running off the motherboards internal RAID. looking for a card I can put in the 1U to give me 1 SFF-8088 ports to connect to the 12bay JBOD box.will probably run it as 2 seperate storage pools and migrate my customers data to the JBOD and keep the original storage pool for my internal use.
So, any RAID card suggestions? i'm assming I'll have to spend about 600-800 on a RAID card... but if theres some way around that I'd be open to it.
Right now in the 1U the drives are running off the motherboards internal RAID. looking for a card I can put in the 1U to give me 1 SFF-8088 ports to connect to the 12bay JBOD box.will probably run it as 2 seperate storage pools and migrate my customers data to the JBOD and keep the original storage pool for my internal use.
So, any RAID card suggestions? i'm assming I'll have to spend about 600-800 on a RAID card... but if theres some way around that I'd be open to it.