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Even for home use I'm not sure I could recommend them. From experience using them in servers, I'd site a handful of problems: + Raid 5 requires BBWC + Raid 6 r
by BuildTheRobots 6y ago
Even for home use I'm not sure I could recommend them.
From experience using them in servers, I'd site a handful of problems:
+ Raid 5 requires BBWC
+ Raid 6 requires licensing
+ HPE requires a support contract to download most firmware
+ When used in servers, they report non-hp drives as being in a constant fault state.
- xaduha 6y ago> BBWC why wouldn't you use it if you have it? > Raid 6 requires licensing Keys are out there and can be googled, in any case you probably don't need RAID 6 or any extra features for personal use > HPE requires a support contract to download most firmware Um, firmware for this card is on the page I linked, free as in beer > When used in servers, they report non-hp drives as being in a constant fault state I wouldn't know, haven't seen anything of the sort personally
- BuildTheRobots 6y agoI mentioned the BBWC because the first few links I found to buy the card didn't include it. Nice to see firmware available - in 2014 HP started requiring support contracts or warranties to download firmware updates for the servers which really turned me off them. I didn't realise RAID firmware wasn't included in that (for some reason iLO firmware isn't either, but I think that's probably because it includes OSS). For this reason alone I'd avoid HP on principal. I'm hoping one day I can find a reasonably cheap RAID card that still supports using hte BBWC in JBOD mode...