Windows Server Essentials hardware vs software raid?

[BobBuilder]

as per title, was wondering for windows servers it is generally advised to use hardware or software raid? there's built in software raid with storage pools and stuff

[BobBuilder]

also, there is also bios raid? built into intel chipsets, so many options

[Nick7]

For OS HW raid.

For data it's usually either on SAN or NAS.

If data is locally, it depends. HW or SS, depends on use case.

[Electronics Wizardy]

What version of windows, Im assuming server 2019.

 

What drive setup? What features do you need?

 

What hardware raid card would you use?

 

Id probably use storage spaces, its pretty good, and has many more features than any hardware raid, like tiereing, clustering, multiple raid levels, easy expansion, mixed drive sizes.

 

Don't use the bios raid.

[BobBuilder]

11 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What version of windows, Im assuming server 2019.

 

What drive setup? What features do you need?

 

What hardware raid card would you use?

 

Id probably use storage spaces, its pretty good, and has many more features than any hardware raid, like tiereing, clustering, multiple raid levels, easy expansion, mixed drive sizes.

 

Don't use the bios raid.

Server 2019 essentials

drive setup 10tb*4, 8tb*8, would love to lose 1 or 2 hard drives willy nilly.

hardware raid card, haven't decided, but probably will get a used lsi raid card

 

does this setup still warrant for storage spaces?

[Nick7]

You'll be much more happy with HW raid. You will need SAS expander though for so many drives.

SS is crap for 'parity' (aka RAID5), same for double parity (aka RAID6).

Go with HW raid for Windows.

[Electronics Wizardy]

10 hours ago, Aloau said:

Server 2019 essentials

drive setup 10tb*4, 8tb*8, would love to lose 1 or 2 hard drives willy nilly.

hardware raid card, haven't decided, but probably will get a used lsi raid card

 

does this setup still warrant for storage spaces?

If you want storage spaces, get a hba, not a raid card.

 

Why mixed drives sizes?

 

Id personally use storage spaces as I like the flexability and features more.

[BobBuilder]

 

10 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

If you want storage spaces, get a hba, not a raid card.

 

Why mixed drives sizes?

 

Id personally use storage spaces as I like the flexability and features more.

On 11/4/2019 at 1:53 AM, Electronics Wizardy said:

What hardware raid card would you use?

you asked me what raid card I would use, so I gave you an answer

 

mixed drive sizes because we already had these drives, 8tb drives and 10tb drives, not buying them new

 

[Golden_owl]

I am planning for Software raid 5 on 3 drives and separate ssd boot drive for windows server on my future server build is it good.

And please tell me what will happen if my boot drive fails, will I loose my data.

please share your opinions and suggestions