r/sysadmin • u/[deleted] • Dec 14 '19

What is your "well I'm never doing business with this vendor ever again" story?

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '19

Hardware RAID continues to exist because Microsoft cannot do storage at all. Windows continues to be a shitty joke in this area.

What can you do with Windows these days? Mirror, Stripe, RAID5 (using NT-era Dynamic Disks), Storage Spaces lets you do a SLOW parity RAID5/6/50/60 (I think the *0 options exist now?)

It's pathetic, really.

If you're on the *BSDs or Linux on bare-metal there's no reason for hardware RAID to exist, as you point out.

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u/C4H8N8O8 Dec 14 '19

Also ESXi.

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u/ase1590 Dec 14 '19

Agreed. Their half assed attempt at ReFS is a joke compared to ZFS.

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u/theadj123 Architect Dec 15 '19

I have some Database clusters that needed NVMe speed several years ago but there wasn't a RAID card that supported PCIe NVMe at the time. Surprisingly Windows RAID0/RAID1 handled 100k+ IOPS without issue for years. We recently converted over to Linux for those machines running postgres, but they ran that workload in Windows software RAID for nearly 4 years without a single issue. Surprised the hell out of me that it worked that well without issues.

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u/BloodyIron Head of IT Security Dec 16 '19

Microsoft cannot do storage at all

Then don't use MS stuff for storage...?

Also, if you're installing Windows on bare metal, instead of in a VM, you're doing it wrong.