Back than I found out that software raid was abyssal if running under windows, and you had to use hardware raid to get any kind of acceptable raid array working. Is there and negative long term affects of using a software raid vs bios?Īm I just being redundant?(sorry couldn't resist the dad joke)Ī few years ago when I build my NAS, I also had to decide on software vs hardware raid. What are your thoughts on this? Would you go with software or bios raid in this instance?
And since the server CPU only maxed out at 10% with usage I think it may just be the better option for my use case. But I'm thinking of ditching the on-board raid controller for the one built into OMV. I plan to back my server with a tape drive for long term backups just in case something actually happens. So when I did my testing with the bios raid I would get a max of 320Mb/s reads and around 100Mb/s write where with the OMV I would get double and triple higher with maybe an only 4% cpu extra of usage. It's so light weight a raspberry pi can run a media server and some apps on it no problem. Its a super light weight and easy to manage Linux os. I did both of my raid identical with raid 5. When I configured the drive array in the bios and ran some test and notice that the read and write speeds were garbage when compared to my Os software raid. I always herd people say never user software raid because it suck and uses allot of cpu processing power to handle the array. So Dell servers have raid control built into the bios and most nas operating systems have software raid.
So ton of horse power even though is older hardware 40% faster then what my currently setup is. I will be swapping the out the old drives for new 1.2tb running at 10k rpms HDDs soon. I currently use an old hp computer to host my nas/media server and it time for more power!!! The T710 comes that I have is currently configured with 8 x 73 GB 2.5" HDD running at 7.5k rpms, dual 6c/12t processors, 48 gb of ram. I plan to use this server as media server and a nas that will be lightly used. And I was doing some testing with and and was wondering what other peoples thoughts were on the subject, since I haven't really seen anyone else post something like this, I'd figure I would. So my friend sold me Dell Power Edge T710 server yesterday for a hell of a price.
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