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Hello,

I have been using 3108 RAID controllers with supermicro servers for a long time.
It works fine.

However, due to the increase in SSD performance, I was always aware that software RAID will probably be better in performance along with some filesystems such as ZFS having additional unique advantages.
So I am finally considering making the leap from hardware RAID to software RAID, especially since NVME drives from what I know don't even have hardware RAID support.

In the past when connecting many drives I noticed I have to setup each signle drive as a RAID 0 through the RAID card, which I think would decrease performance.

So I have to questions regarding best method to connect 24 SSDs for software RAID?

1.
What is the standard way of connecting 24 SATA SSDs to a storage server and use each drive individually and/or setup as software raid?
From what I know a RAID card such as 3108 is usually needed to connect so many drives to the mainboard.

2.
How does 24 nvme drives work in Storage servers that support it? Does mainboard have shared PCIe lanes that are connected with the nvme drives?

Thank you.

This is my first post on Web Hosting Talk Forum. I need your help. My server consists of 2 hard drives. 1TB x 2 SATA. In last week my server gets slow down and the data center noticed that I have an issue with my hard drive. They said " We are showing drive SDB is failing and will need to be replaced, " They asked me to take a backup and replace the hard drive immediately.

I have 2 hard drives and I have installed CentOS 7 with software RAID 1 ( Software RAID ). So now my question is do I need to restore the backup once we replace the hard drive. ? or is it syncing with RAID without any manual backup restoration ?

Hi,

if i have 8 SATA3 SSD, for shared hosting,
i want to run cloudlinux and cpanel on it.

compare hardware raid card with mdadm raid10,
do you recommend which one ?

i make searching,

1. some people say raid card will be quicker,
but cpu are quick now,does it really have the difference ?

2. some people say raid card has battery and mdadm only server power,
when server's power fail,
mdadm's raid data may break,is it real ?

Hi,

With your experience,

1. For hosting sites(such as WordPress),
Will nvme ssd be much quicker than sata ssd ?

2. Will ssd with hardware raid card be much quicker than mdadm software raid ?

Hi there!

I currently have 3 Proxmox servers in a cluster with OVH, but their customer service is shocking to say the least.

I've been trying to find a similar provider, but I can't find anything near as comparable for the price/spec I'm after.

The spec for each server is:

AMD Epyc 7351P - 16c/32t - 2.4 GHz/2.9 GHz
256 GB ECC 2400 MHz
2500 GB SSD NVMe
UK (This is a must)
Proxmox VE 6

I don't need any managed services, just access to the bare metal.

Can anyone recommend a provider who can provide me with a similar spec and price to these? I currently pay around £200/month per server.

Thanks!

Hello, i installed proxmox on server. Then i created Vm s on it. I have on ip which is for root also for the server.
But how can i access VM from my windows? When is ip adress of my VM? In proxmox i can access vnc of vm but how can install plesk,cpanel or something webs ervise on VM?

Thanks

Hello, i want to configure HP ProLiant DL360p G8 that support 4 x 3.5 Bay.
I think to install one SSD and 3 HDD. 1 TB SSD + 3 x 10 TB.
But what is about RAID system?
With RAID 0 all of 4 hard disk are combined and will the ssd have any effort? I want to install OS on ssd so that it will be faster but on RAId 0 does it work so?
With another RAID system i cannot use all DATA of this 10 TB, is it right yes?

Is it generally possible to configure 1 TB SSD + 3 x 10 TB so that OS is running on SSD and i have also 30 TB space?

Thank you

So I'm looking forward to buy something like the Infra-3 server from OVH (https://www.ovhcloud.com/es/bare-metal/infra/infra-3/). They offer a 4x60GB SSD Sata hard Raid, and also a 3x3.84TB SSD NvMe Soft Raid. And althought I want more space, I think they sold the 4x960 so people can wain more speed? How much more speed could I win from that configuration?

Also they sold a 3x6TB HHD SATA Hard RAID. I want to know how much speed on I/O should I get in every case.

Currently I got a Infra-2 (https://www.ovhcloud.com/es/bare-metal/infra/infra-2/) with 2x960GB SSD NvMe SoftRaid + 2 x 6TB HDD Sata Soft Raid, How can I test the speed of I/O of those hard drives?

And If I start a new server, what kind of partitioning do you recommend to improve the I/O?

We're looking for a backup storage server with eg. 6X8TB Raid 6, we have found such products at Hetzner and OVH, but we do not want to go though their verification process so where can we buy this without such KYC?
We're not going to do anything scammy with this server, we just need a place to store incremental backups and perhaps do some video encoding. We do value our privacy and these mentioned companies seems expect us to submit DNA sample as part of just ordering a simple server.

I apologize if i opened the read in the wrong category. I struggled since 4 days to configure server. It has 4 disk each 4TB but cannot use whole of them
I chose RAID Type: Software, RAID Level 5 and "number of disk" - 4 but it shows me only 10TB. Can anyone please help me?