raid card recomendations

[Technomancer__]

i need recommendations for a raid card. i was originally going to get MEGARAID SAS 9341-8I but @leadeatersaid

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The flash cache/BBU is required for write-back cache to be active which is also required for decent RAID 5/6 performance. Without active write-back cache you'll only get around 60-120 MB/s write performance to the array no matter how many HDDs you have.

 

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I can confirm the 9341 has no onboard cache at all, I wouldn't use it for RAID 5 or 6.

it has to have 8 ports and support raid 5. around 300ish euros 

i shop from amazon.de

[Electronics Wizardy]

why do you need a raid card, just use storage spaces here.

[Technomancer__]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

why do you need a raid card, just use storage spaces here.

wont the raid card perform much better?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Technomancer__ said:

wont the raid card perform much better?

nope,  and storage spaces supports things like a ssd tier aswell.

[Technomancer__]

32 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

nope,  and storage spaces supports things like a ssd tier aswell.

i will try it with some old drives in the summer and i will report back

[Technomancer__]

18 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

nope,  and storage spaces supports things like a ssd tier aswell.

i will use something like open media vault 

[Ramaddil]

Storage spaces is god awful slow, and tiering has to be setup manually on Win10.  Where as server 2012/2016 is can be setup in the GUI.  You also have to have two SSD's for Tiering.  A cheap raid card lsi 9260-4i (30-40 usd on ebay) is decent and usable without SSD tiering. 

[Blebekblebek]

14 minutes ago, Ramaddil said:

Storage spaces is god awful slow, and tiering has to be setup manually on Win10.  Where as server 2012/2016 is can be setup in the GUI.  You also have to have two SSD's for Tiering.  A cheap raid card lsi 9260-4i (30-40 usd on ebay) is decent and usable without SSD tiering. 

Win 10 has gui, and even with with Windows server it had to be setup manually... what's your point with this statement?

22 hours ago, Technomancer__ said:

i need recommendations for a raid card. i was originally going to get MEGARAID SAS 9341-8I but @leadeatersaid

it has to have 8 ports and support raid 5. around 300ish euros 

i shop from amazon.de

if you going to spend 300 just for controller, use ssd for writeback instead, it will be far more effective than regular hdd even with fastest controller available.

[Ramaddil]

My point is setting up Tiering with SSD's in Windows 10 can not be done through the GUI, and not only that you have to buy two ssd's which even at the cheapest your looking at 40-50 per (80-100$) instead of buying a 50-70$ used raid card without having to use SSD's for tiering.

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

5 hours ago, Technomancer__ said:

i will use something like open media vault 

Then use software raid, no need for a raid card then.