On 6/24/22 05:35, John Mellor wrote:
> On 2022-06-23 23:04, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
>> Any of you guys know of a PCIe card that will do
>> hardware RAID 1 with two NVMe drives?
>>
>> I have found some, but they are way to elaborate,
>> and as such, way too expensive.
>
> Maybe you have a weird hardware requirement that explains the question,
> but why do you want a RAID-1 card?  Software RAID is much cheaper,
> faster, uses less power and is considerably more reliable.  If you run
> BTRFS or ZFS, then it is also easier on the drives, and recovery times
> are hundreds of times lower than what you can do with hardware.  That
> translates directly into hundreds of times better reliability numbers.
> Best of all, you do not need matching drives or drive sizes to implement
> RAID-1.  For a long time now, the only reason to run hardware RAID has
> been underneath back-level versions of Windows or VMware.
>
> --
>
> John Mellor

Hi John,

I am working with a customer's motherboard where
iRSTe is defective.  So I just want to chuck it and
get hardware RAID,

Otherwise, you are correct.

-T
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