[ale] RAID card for home use?

[Beddingfield, Allen]

I'm a big fan of Btrfs, but usually on top of hardware RAID.  
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Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
The University of Alabama

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of Michael Trausch [mike at trausch.us]
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 8:30 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] RAID card for home use?

No raid. Btrfs.

That's all I am going to day. My reasons are already published in the list archives, and I am not willing to engage in more argument. It's solid, the perceived kvm problem has a two second fix, and backup/restore is a breeze. Supports growing and shrinking while online and across devices, like zfs but more flexible.

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> On Sep 27, 2015, at 10:15 PM, Raj Wurttemberg <rajaw at c64.us> wrote:
>
> The drives (Seagate 1TB) in my main PC are starting to act a little strange
> after 4+ years of contiuous use and I am just about to rebuild the PC with
> three new HGST drives. I have a simple RAID 0 (stripe) right now managed by
> the standard motherboard Intel RAID.   I have a separate backup server
> runninng so I don't really care that much about a drive failure.
>
> I was thinking of getting an LSI 9260-4I card to squeeze a little more
> performance out of the system.  I'd like to stay below $300 for the RAID
> card. Do any of you use a RAID card in your home PCs?  One note... I do run
> VMware Workstation and I run several "workstation" VMs (Windows 10, Windows
> 7, and Ubuntu).
>
> Kind regards,
> /Raj
>
>
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