On 5/6/2016 2:26 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > Which internal hardware RAID controllers will survive some future to come > in your estimate. First of all my beloved 3ware finally seems to have > passed away. After multiple acquisitions and becoming part of LSI and > getting bought with LSI, it probably became non operational. Namely, the > latest 3ware cards have ancient firmware. Neither of them supports 4kn > drives. This speaks for itself for me. [Under new ownership] LSI, though > still having new controllers released, and one of their MegaRAID > controllers (at least) having support for 4kn drives, still may not last > long (just my feeling, I'd like to hear yours). So, what RAID controllers > will those of us who like to have hardware RAIDs use in some future to > come? IMHO, "Hardware" (really embedded firmware) RAID is for Windows servers, since MS Windows has awful integrated software raid (aka 'dynamic disk', truly a mess). With Linux, I'd rather use LVM, with BSD, ZFS. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz