My friend is a camera operator and is looking to take two SSDs together for a portable raid. AFAIK modern raid like that is an old school approach. I recommended he set up a little server or the easy way out and just look for a JBOD enclosure. Am I wrong? Are there trustworthy enclosures that handle the raid without much set-up today?
Why use hardware raid instead of software based raid ? Am i missing something ?
Large scale performance. My job involves obscene amounts of storage, and nothing beats a proper raid controller with cache vault. When clustering many storage nodes into one big filesystem, across several machines, any overhead is awful.
On a hobby-level I don’t mind software raid. I just don’t want to put it into production.
From one hobbyist to another, I’ve got an absolutely ancient second gen 4-bay Drobo that works fine, but really needs to be replaced with a proper NAS configuration. Do you have any recommendations for a more modern four drive setup that wouldn’t break the bank?
As long as you have the ram to run it, I find that ZFS covers most of my needs unless I am dealing with something that necessitates beegfs. My basement server has 12 drives in JBOD, tied together with ZFS, and it works fine.