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Date: | Thu, 19 May 2016 15:57:45 -0500 |
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I'm in the process of spec'ing some new hardware and am looking at a
Supermicro X11SAE
(https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C236_C232/X11SAE.cfm)
motherboard. Does anyone have any experience with this board, or at
least the C236 chipset with SL7x?
Also, can anyone recommend a supported RAID card. Only looking for a 2
drive, RAID 1 setup. I'm presently using an Areca ARC-1200, but think
it is a performance bottleneck, as it is only SATAII. They offer a
SATAIII, but looks like it might be a bit on the new side and turn into
a fight with drivers.
I have poked at using software RAID or the onboard Intel
implementations, but am not sure how much integrity I can expect,
especially when suffering a sudden power loss. I have had good luck
with "real" hardware cards and so have a bias toward them.
With software RAID, I understand that a separate boot partition must
live on 1 of the drives. What happens if the drive with the boot
partition fails? Maybe this has already been addressed and I'm just way
behind the curve here...
-Mark
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