Maybe just me, but I don't particularly feel that hardware RAID cards are in a good spot these days. Ideally you have PC hardware running software (an OS that supports ZFS filesystem, such as FreeNAS), and instead of RAID cards, you'd use JBOD cards (so that the OS can communicate directly with the HDDs, and so that you can interface many many more HDDs than you'd normally have direct SATA ports for).
I'm sure there's still a big market for hardware RAID cards, but I imagine with how many more features you get through things like ZFS that hardware RAID may fall off in the future.
ZFS is annoyingly resource hungry and still can't easily modify raids, along with other issues.
That said ZFS does have a very attractive price of free, so it's hard to complain about its short comings. So it's a pick what you need for the job like most things in enterprise.
This is a clean little controller to be able to pack a lot of hard-drive into a workstation or a personal VM server. It would be interesting to know it's support of SATA hard drives (some "enterprise" controllers did work with them but at a costly performance price).
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JoeyJoJo123 - Thursday, July 26, 2018 - link
Maybe just me, but I don't particularly feel that hardware RAID cards are in a good spot these days. Ideally you have PC hardware running software (an OS that supports ZFS filesystem, such as FreeNAS), and instead of RAID cards, you'd use JBOD cards (so that the OS can communicate directly with the HDDs, and so that you can interface many many more HDDs than you'd normally have direct SATA ports for).I'm sure there's still a big market for hardware RAID cards, but I imagine with how many more features you get through things like ZFS that hardware RAID may fall off in the future.
Kraszmyl - Thursday, July 26, 2018 - link
ZFS is annoyingly resource hungry and still can't easily modify raids, along with other issues.That said ZFS does have a very attractive price of free, so it's hard to complain about its short comings. So it's a pick what you need for the job like most things in enterprise.
iAPX - Tuesday, July 31, 2018 - link
This is a clean little controller to be able to pack a lot of hard-drive into a workstation or a personal VM server. It would be interesting to know it's support of SATA hard drives (some "enterprise" controllers did work with them but at a costly performance price).