<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Raymond Wagner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com" target="_blank">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 9/26/2013 4:14 PM, Stephen P. Villano wrote:<br>
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On 9/26/13 3:24 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:<br>
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On 9/26/2013 3:01 PM, Stephen P. Villano wrote:<br>
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On 9/26/13 2:53 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:<br>
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On 9/26/2013 12:52 PM, Stephen P. Villano wrote:<br>
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I got snookered a few years back into purchasing a fakeraid<br>
card (was sold as a real RAID, but it's software RAID).<br>
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There's a quick and infallible way to check. If the card comes with a<br>
big chunk of soldered memory, or better yet a DIMM slot, it's real<br>
RAID.<br>
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A bit further OT, any recommendations on a good RAID card for my next<br>
build?<br>
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My last upgrade was an LSI 9201-16i and ZFS. So far, so good... On<br>
that note, I've got an old ARC-1230 lying around if you're interested.<br>
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When I get the spare bucks, I'll keep you in mind. With that and the<br>
drives I have on hand, as well as a server case with hot plug drive<br>
slots, it'd be all that I need (save another mobo) to toss another four<br>
terabytes onto the network here.<br>
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The bigger "takeaway" from that was that I was suggesting, as Eric Sharkey did, to just find a nice disk controller and do software RAID, not buy my used 7yr old RAID card. After all, hardware RAID is ultimately nothing more than software RAID running on a little embedded computer built into a PCIe card.<br>
</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">But with proprietary a format meaning your array may not be portable to a new controller should it fail... That was the strongest reason for me to choose the well-supported mdadm soft RAID.<br>
<br>Karl<br></div></div>