I'm building a workstation that is going to be used to process a lot of research data. I built a few of these before but not really sure if I got good performance. Its gotta run Windows Server 2016.
At the end of the day the storage needs to be exposed as a 30x6TB single drive.
My last build used a RAID6 with an Adaptec controller and a splitter to get more ports. The whole ~120TB was then set to RAID6.
I'm trying to figure out how to do it better.
I heard Storage Spaces has RAID6 support as of Server 2016? Anybody have any experience what a a failure scenario feels like? Maybe put a few HighPoint Rocket 750 in the case... the card doesn't actually have RAID? If I put two cards in, do I get better sequential write performance?
From the hardware RAID perspective I was thinking of maybe putting two Adaptec 8805 in the case. Not sure how this would work out.
Any thoughts?
At the end of the day the storage needs to be exposed as a 30x6TB single drive.
My last build used a RAID6 with an Adaptec controller and a splitter to get more ports. The whole ~120TB was then set to RAID6.
I'm trying to figure out how to do it better.
I heard Storage Spaces has RAID6 support as of Server 2016? Anybody have any experience what a a failure scenario feels like? Maybe put a few HighPoint Rocket 750 in the case... the card doesn't actually have RAID? If I put two cards in, do I get better sequential write performance?
From the hardware RAID perspective I was thinking of maybe putting two Adaptec 8805 in the case. Not sure how this would work out.
Any thoughts?
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