Agreed. Software Storage FTW. (ZFS, Ceph, GlusterFS, etc)
On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 8:11 PM, Mike Hammett <af...@ics-il.net> wrote: > Hardware RAID is indeed for suckers. ZFS or something like that for the > win. > > Well, RAID is obsolete. You shouldn't even be running RAID controllers > with ZFS, only HBAs. The file system is far more intelligent and capable > than a hardware controller. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > > > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Trey Scarborough" <t...@3dsc.co> > *To: *af@afmug.com > *Sent: *Thursday, February 9, 2017 8:07:24 PM > *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Raid Controller Recommendations > > If it is for network attached storage I would recommend against hardware > raid and use btrfs or zfs. I have to many issues with corrupted raid > information on drives. The advances with these file systems make raid > almost obsolete. > > On 2/9/2017 10:42 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > > Drives are cheap. RAID 1 is obsolete. Buy 2 more drives and use > something like RAID 10? > > > > AFAIK yes Adaptec and LSI are still the main players. I have one server > with Adaptec RAID but the place I ordered it from now seems to only carry > LSI, not sure why. Some of those cards can throw off a lot of heat and > adding fans to the chassis may make sense, especially if it's a 1U server, > many servers don't have all the fans populated by default and adding 1-2 > more may not cost much. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Nate Burke > > Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2017 10:18 AM > > To: Animal Farm <af@afmug.com> > > Subject: [AFMUG] Raid Controller Recommendations > > > > I'm looking for a simple hardware raid controller to setup 2 drives in > Raid 1. The motherboard has the ICH9R controller which can do Raid1, but > it looks like the monitoring software isn't compatible with Windows > > 10 (I just bricked the box trying to install an older version) > > > > It's been a while since I've purchased raid cards. I think my last > one's were 3ware, which is now LSI. Are Adaptec and LSI still the main > players? > > > > > > > > > >
