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.
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.