[ale] RAID card for home use?

[Michael Trausch]

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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