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HW Raid or SW Raid
AlexanderM
Member, Patron Provider, Top Host
in Help
For a KVM VPS Node, i was going to get HW Raid10 w/ BBU. But i was wondering, for a budget service, is HW RAID worth it?
Raid card would be a LSI 9260-4i RAID10 w/ BBU (4x1TB) And would cost me $50/month (Renting from DC)
What I/O Would you expect from the HWRAID /w BBU? SW RAID10 with 4x1TB is about 180MB/s
Cheers
Comments
Get 2 x 1TB more and do SW
Raid Card + BBU = two additional points of failure. If you were looking for Linux only, just go software RAID.
@AlexanderM you can learn this the hard way or the easy way. If you want the easy way then just get a decent RAID 10 controller with BBU and call it a day
+1 for HW RAID + BBU
+1 for HW RAID 10 + BBU. Its usually about 300+ mbps that way with enterprise drives. More if you do a ssd cache.