Currently I have a raid 5 of four 2TB drives, and while it's served me well over the past 2 and a half years (it was transferred from an old socket 775 core 2 duo build), all the things I've read about it and the dependence I've developed for it, I'm concerned about its reliability. Almost every forum I've ever seen has made motherboard raid solutions out to be the worst thing ever made.
Currently I have:
X9SCM-F providing 2xSata3 ports and 4xSata2 ports
HighPoint Rocket 640L providing 4xSata3 for the additional drives
4x2TB drives in raid 5 fakeraid
2x2TB drives in storage spaces, split between mirroring and striping for generic storage and backup - these are hooked up through the Rocket 640L
2x256GB ssds in raid 0 fakeraid (backed up every night to a storage space)
All running on windows server 2012.
Basically I'm looking at pros and cons to moving off of the intel solution. It seems to be pretty speedy, any time I transfer files to and from it, it's usually around 200MB/s depending on what's being transferred. I also ordered a 4TB external drive I plan on doing backups to; I'm only using a little over 2TB of the raid so that'll last me for awhile.
I've looked at flexraid and other snapshot raid type solutions, and they don't really seem to do it for me, I do torrent from time to time on the raid, and I know that flexraid has issues with that (it's not recommended). Mostly it's just stored data sitting there; it has a lot of movie rips and tv show rips on it, along with some documentation, but it's also where my torrents are saved to from my torrent VM.
I've also looked at something like FreeNAS but they say right on their forums "DO NOT RUN IN VIRTUAL MACHINE," and the only way I could run something like that would be through a hyper-v with the disks passed through. I've considered experimenting with it, I have 32GB of ECC memory so I still think it might work out if configured properly (assuming it even works on hyper-v, the posts I saw as recently as March said it didn't).
Storage spaces seems lackluster as well, although I haven't tested out their parity solution, from what I've read it has absolutely horrible write speeds.
Any ideas? Or am I better off just not messing with what has worked for me so far?
Currently I have:
X9SCM-F providing 2xSata3 ports and 4xSata2 ports
HighPoint Rocket 640L providing 4xSata3 for the additional drives
4x2TB drives in raid 5 fakeraid
2x2TB drives in storage spaces, split between mirroring and striping for generic storage and backup - these are hooked up through the Rocket 640L
2x256GB ssds in raid 0 fakeraid (backed up every night to a storage space)
All running on windows server 2012.
Basically I'm looking at pros and cons to moving off of the intel solution. It seems to be pretty speedy, any time I transfer files to and from it, it's usually around 200MB/s depending on what's being transferred. I also ordered a 4TB external drive I plan on doing backups to; I'm only using a little over 2TB of the raid so that'll last me for awhile.
I've looked at flexraid and other snapshot raid type solutions, and they don't really seem to do it for me, I do torrent from time to time on the raid, and I know that flexraid has issues with that (it's not recommended). Mostly it's just stored data sitting there; it has a lot of movie rips and tv show rips on it, along with some documentation, but it's also where my torrents are saved to from my torrent VM.
I've also looked at something like FreeNAS but they say right on their forums "DO NOT RUN IN VIRTUAL MACHINE," and the only way I could run something like that would be through a hyper-v with the disks passed through. I've considered experimenting with it, I have 32GB of ECC memory so I still think it might work out if configured properly (assuming it even works on hyper-v, the posts I saw as recently as March said it didn't).
Storage spaces seems lackluster as well, although I haven't tested out their parity solution, from what I've read it has absolutely horrible write speeds.
Any ideas? Or am I better off just not messing with what has worked for me so far?