Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

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...that said, it's not much worse than the competetion, storage simply sucks ;-(

So you are saying people dole out huge amounts of money for rubbish? That the software raid people were and have always been right?

Depends what the software raid people were saying. :)

Hardware & Software RAID have their places. We use HW RAID exclusively in our shop (SMB w/ multiple sites and I'm the sole tech.) but that's because I can't always be on-site when drives die so it's nice to know I can be out of town for a few days and if a drive packs it in the RAID system in our IBM servers is plug & play. I get the alert, call our vendor, and he shows up 9am next morning with a replacement drive.