Comments on: An Alternative Way for Low Cost Veeam Backup Solution http://www.modelcar.hk/?p=5171 My Die-Cast Collection & Interests Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:35:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Tonis Osvet http://www.modelcar.hk/?p=5171&cpage=1#comment-1502 Tonis Osvet Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:21:50 +0000 http://www.modelcar.hk/?p=5171#comment-1502 How can you compare a RAID50 (12x2TB) array to a JBOD USB3.0 (4x4TB) drives is beyond me. They are apples to oranges. Of course JBOD is cheaper. But you shouldn't forget that JBOD is NOT REDUNDANT. If one USB disk fails, you have data loss. Otherwise, good article and thanks for sharing your endeavour. How can you compare a RAID50 (12×2TB) array to a JBOD USB3.0 (4×4TB) drives is beyond me. They are apples to oranges. Of course JBOD is cheaper. But you shouldn’t forget that JBOD is NOT REDUNDANT. If one USB disk fails, you have data loss.

Otherwise, good article and thanks for sharing your endeavour.

]]> By: Peter L http://www.modelcar.hk/?p=5171&cpage=1#comment-1337 Peter L Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:12:29 +0000 http://www.modelcar.hk/?p=5171#comment-1337 Good article there, whilst speed doesn't really come into it I did read yesterday that Seagate are discontinuing their Green line as on average the 'Green' only saved around $4 a year at the expense of 20% in speed. Good solution for a small/medium company, off to visit one in London next week so may mention this if they have any cash limits. Cheers Good article there, whilst speed doesn’t really come into it I did read yesterday that Seagate are discontinuing their Green line as on average the ‘Green’ only saved around $4 a year at the expense of 20% in speed.

Good solution for a small/medium company, off to visit one in London next week so may mention this if they have any cash limits.

Cheers

]]> By: admin http://www.modelcar.hk/?p=5171&cpage=1#comment-1329 admin Mon, 21 Nov 2011 05:10:58 +0000 http://www.modelcar.hk/?p=5171#comment-1329 It seemed Syba and other low end HBA does have quality issues as I have also mentioned in my post above. I remember almost 10 years ago, I did put a Taiwan made IDE raid card (ITE) into Poweredge 2450/2650, it worked fine, but not under high load, PE2450/OE2650 will suddenly become BSOD or reboot itself. Your card went bad after a year might due to excessive heat and also the cheap on-board IC components of the card, that’s why I always carry a spare while it’s in stock. After all, it’s just pure luck for certain card to work with certain server or motherboard, this even applies to well known brand such as LSI Megaraid, it works with some and doesn’t with others. Finally, I really won’t complain much as it’s not a Dell supported solution and USB 3.0 HBA is the least risky method so far, most importantly, it’s SO CHEAP. :D I knew e-SATA cannot be hot-plug if you are still using W2K3, W2K8 may be, so the best way and the most safe way is to use is a USB 3.0 HBA. If I were you, I will start with Highpoint RocketU 1144A right away which is a PCI-e GEN2 x 1, 4 USB 3.0 ports with 5Gb/s individual bandwidth, only 4 high-end SSD can saturate such card. I won’t go for the raid version as it’s just too risky as well. You can go as far as connecting a 4 bay USB 3.0 case (like RAIDON or Stardom SR4-WBS3) with 4TB each to each of those USB 3.0 ports, so immediately you have a 64TB storage for under USD4,000, enough for another 10 years. It seemed Syba and other low end HBA does have quality issues as I have also mentioned in my post above.

I remember almost 10 years ago, I did put a Taiwan made IDE raid card (ITE) into Poweredge 2450/2650, it worked fine, but not under high load, PE2450/OE2650 will suddenly become BSOD or reboot itself.

Your card went bad after a year might due to excessive heat and also the cheap on-board IC components of the card, that’s why I always carry a spare while it’s in stock.

After all, it’s just pure luck for certain card to work with certain server or motherboard, this even applies to well known brand such as LSI Megaraid, it works with some and doesn’t with others.

Finally, I really won’t complain much as it’s not a Dell supported solution and USB 3.0 HBA is the least risky method so far, most importantly, it’s SO CHEAP. :D

I knew e-SATA cannot be hot-plug if you are still using W2K3, W2K8 may be, so the best way and the most safe way is to use is a USB 3.0 HBA.

If I were you, I will start with Highpoint RocketU 1144A right away which is a PCI-e GEN2 x 1, 4 USB 3.0 ports with 5Gb/s individual bandwidth, only 4 high-end SSD can saturate such card. I won’t go for the raid version as it’s just too risky as well.

You can go as far as connecting a 4 bay USB 3.0 case (like RAIDON or Stardom SR4-WBS3) with 4TB each to each of those USB 3.0 ports, so immediately you have a 64TB storage for under USD4,000, enough for another 10 years.

]]> By: Danny http://www.modelcar.hk/?p=5171&cpage=1#comment-1327 Danny Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:44:44 +0000 http://www.modelcar.hk/?p=5171#comment-1327 So finally you use Syba card in your R610? I have bad experience on this brand name. The first story is I got a PCI version SATA RAID 1 card for a 2003 server. After a year, the server 2003 will pop up a blue error screen at start up. The server back to normal after I unplug this RAID card. The another story is I have a PCI-E version SATA2 RAID card trying to form a RAID 1 with 2 SATA2 hard disc on a ASUS motherboard. This card cannot operate smoothly with ASUS motherboard. Finally I change this SATA2 card back to PCI version SATA-1. So finally you use Syba card in your R610?

I have bad experience on this brand name.

The first story is I got a PCI version SATA RAID 1 card for a 2003 server. After a year, the server 2003 will pop up a blue error screen at start up. The server back to normal after I unplug this RAID card.

The another story is I have a PCI-E version SATA2 RAID card trying to form a RAID 1 with 2 SATA2 hard disc on a ASUS motherboard. This card cannot operate smoothly with ASUS motherboard. Finally I change this SATA2 card back to PCI version SATA-1.

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