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You don't, if you are wanting to expand the size of the space available.
RAID 1 or higher let's you replace a drive when 1 fails and you still have your data.
You put in a replacement disk and...
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but which what hardware raid allows you to add disk anytime you chose?
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+1 for Hardware Raid in most cases. It's fire and forget...if you bork your OS and it's running your RAID...you'll wish for hardware raid.
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This is a server deal thread, and the Xeon E3-1225 v5 Quad-core processor does not have hyper-threading. It can run four threads on four cores simultaneously.
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Except it's not. Go look it up
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Respectfully disagree. It's especially material, and germane to some peoples' purchase decision.
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Whatever, its immaterial
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Four cores, no hyper-threading.
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No there's not. Just google it, man. We are politely trying to nudge you to get up to date on your tech knowledge here. You're way out of date, software RAID has been negligibly slower than hardware...
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There is a performance hit when running software raid. Correct me if i'm wrong, but this server only has one CPU so the performance hit will be noticed.
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Sorry but you should have read the entire posting...
However, if used with mechanical HDDs, synchronized, random write access pattern (eg: databases, virtual machines) will greatly suffer...
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if you are building some Netapp/EMC equivalent at home, good for you. I guess you are the helpdesk guy running the cloud.
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Im really having a hard time figuring out where you're coming up with this stuff. Its not 2003 anymore. Million dollar Netapps run software RAID. Most Linux enviroments run software RAID. SSD...
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plenty of used ones on ebay for $30
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I dont see anything for $30, $300 - sure.
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adaptec 5 series
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$30 raid card?
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for home use it is quite pointless to have a dedicated software raid box. $30 RAID card can perform much better than most software RAID build.
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thanks
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wrong
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