> On Oct 22, 2020, at 10:34 AM, Anthony D'Atri <anthony.datri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> - You must really be sure your raid card is dependable. (sorry but I have seen so much management problems with top-tier RAID cards I avoid them like the plague). > > This. I’d definitely avoid a RAID card. If I can do advanced encryption with an MMX instruction, I think I can certainly trust IOMMU to handle device multiplexing from software in an efficient manner, no? mdadm RAID is just fine for me and is reliably bootable from GRUB. I’m not an expert in driver mechanics, but mirroring should be very low overhead at the software level. Once it’s software RAID, moving disks between chassis is a simple process as well. Apologies I didn’t make that clear earlier... _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx
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