I have an Areca 1280ML with 16 attached drives (4tb's right now). Its operating in RAID6 mode, with NTFS on top of them, but unfortunately the drives are starting to age and its time for me to swap them out for 8s. This would be the ideal time to change controllers and or filesystems.
To start, this controller has been fantastic for me. I have run 10-20 drive arrays on it 24/7 for more than 15 years and never lost a single piece of data. Its been very fast (700 MB/s or so) and extremely reliable. True enterprise class stuff.
However... its ancient, and I wanted opinions if I were to start over what the recommended options are.
My requirements are as follows:
1) Two drive failure support
2) Online expandability, I like to add drives and just grow the array cleanly
3) Speed. Still on spinning disk for now, so single disk speed doesnt cut it, I serve out enough from this machine to come close to saturating 10gbit, I dont want my disk array to limit the performance
Recommendations for either a new modern RAID card, or a filesystem that supports my needs (ZFS RAIDZ2?)
Will be starting with 8tb drives most likely, a minimum of 40TBs of usuable space worth.
To start, this controller has been fantastic for me. I have run 10-20 drive arrays on it 24/7 for more than 15 years and never lost a single piece of data. Its been very fast (700 MB/s or so) and extremely reliable. True enterprise class stuff.
However... its ancient, and I wanted opinions if I were to start over what the recommended options are.
My requirements are as follows:
1) Two drive failure support
2) Online expandability, I like to add drives and just grow the array cleanly
3) Speed. Still on spinning disk for now, so single disk speed doesnt cut it, I serve out enough from this machine to come close to saturating 10gbit, I dont want my disk array to limit the performance
Recommendations for either a new modern RAID card, or a filesystem that supports my needs (ZFS RAIDZ2?)
Will be starting with 8tb drives most likely, a minimum of 40TBs of usuable space worth.