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<blockquote data-quote="Shurik" data-source="post: 509609" data-attributes="member: 27729">ryan20021982:Wow! Man, there is no reason to sound so offended and angry! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> I wasn't personally attacking you or anything - just tried to show another side of the coin, that's it. If it sounded otherwise - I'm sorry. Whatever you feel is right is the best thing for you - as long as you're happy with your setup and feel comfortable - that's what counts. I personally prefer RAIDs, but you guessed that already.Btw, if you ever plan to move to 10-15-20 drives (for some reason), do you think that having JBOD in two systems is still cost-effective? Systems that would support this configuration will start getting pretty expensive very quick and having mirroring between 2 such systems will hit any wallet pretty hard.drealit:Maybe, I never looked into unRAID, so I'm not sure how good it is. The only issue there, as I understand, is that it's a software RAID, so there is a chance of it failing due to power issues or bugs in the software, which is a little more probable than firmware of good RAID cards and such. Of course you can mitigate that by using a UPS (which is a smart idea to have for your server anyway) and hoping for no bugs in the software. Performance issue could be another concern for some - hardware designed for a particular task is always faster than any software. So far I didn't have any issues with my HighPoint RAID card, so I'm happy with that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shurik, post: 509609, member: 27729"] ryan20021982: Wow! Man, there is no reason to sound so offended and angry! :) I wasn't personally attacking you or anything - just tried to show another side of the coin, that's it. If it sounded otherwise - I'm sorry. Whatever you feel is right is the best thing for you - as long as you're happy with your setup and feel comfortable - that's what counts. I personally prefer RAIDs, but you guessed that already. Btw, if you ever plan to move to 10-15-20 drives (for some reason), do you think that having JBOD in two systems is still cost-effective? Systems that would support this configuration will start getting pretty expensive very quick and having mirroring between 2 such systems will hit any wallet pretty hard. drealit: Maybe, I never looked into unRAID, so I'm not sure how good it is. The only issue there, as I understand, is that it's a software RAID, so there is a chance of it failing due to power issues or bugs in the software, which is a little more probable than firmware of good RAID cards and such. Of course you can mitigate that by using a UPS (which is a smart idea to have for your server anyway) and hoping for no bugs in the software. Performance issue could be another concern for some - hardware designed for a particular task is always faster than any software. So far I didn't have any issues with my HighPoint RAID card, so I'm happy with that. [/QUOTE]

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