I want to start a home NAS and I've had plenty of experience at work buying and configuring prebuilt Dell servers and the likes, but I can't say I've ever on my own had to buy a RAID controller that didn't come in a prebuilt system already. The sticky in this forum has been a huge help because the regular model numbers without knowing the internal controller is a mess.
I considered a Z-RAID2 but my particular scenario will be with 5x5TB Toshiba drives, so no TLER/ERC to benefit from using an HBA instead, and RAID6 will let me be more platform agnostic if I decide to run Windows.
all of that said, does this Dell H710 look like a solid deal?
I considered a Z-RAID2 but my particular scenario will be with 5x5TB Toshiba drives, so no TLER/ERC to benefit from using an HBA instead, and RAID6 will let me be more platform agnostic if I decide to run Windows.
all of that said, does this Dell H710 look like a solid deal?