I have tested a number of times and had raid solutions in the past but I feel that I will never be satisfied. I have 6 1.5TB drives. Now it is set up in RAID 5 on a Dell PERC 5/i controller, which works ok in Windows Server 1908. But everything gets little pci-e ports shown I will expand with time. I have tested the software raid 5 in Freenet, everything went fine, except again Freenet was incredibly slow speed over samba. (30MB/s) even with tweaking. Freenet with raidz, that was not full so well. Solaris 10 with raidz was also not good, which went all the OS to hell by one or another reason, even though I had not gone in the host server for several days. So the thing is that I need a future solution. This should then support up to 20 drives in the raid. Raidz (1/2) Or RAID5-6. I have seen little of the HP's sas expander, looks okay on, but this raid controller in the form of the HW raid is expensive! Then I have only seen Areca models, since these will be very good according to those who have tested or they have. But what kind of raid controller need for ZFS, as the drives are running in JBOD and RAID via the OS. Is probably not great joke to put a lot of money in a controller with a lot of cache memory since it is a solo drive in JBOD? Actually, I just left this to you and others who all are interested to generate ideas that can help me and others who are looking for solutions and opportunities. When the host had good suggestions for OS, RAID controller and RAID level.
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