[ale] RAID card for home use?

[Solomon Peachy]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 10:15:38PM -0400, Raj Wurttemberg 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). 

If you're not going to use the "R" part of RAID, then there's no point 
in bothering with anything beyond what's on the motherboard.

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy        		       pizza at shaftnet dot org
Delray Beach, FL                          ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^
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