Request: Server Rack mounted RAID

[Joco223]

As the title suggests, a server rack mounted RAID which could hold 2 drives (seems logcal to have less drive space than the RAID block). It would be pretty usefull and cool looking to have bunch of server racks with a lot of drives in them

[Joco223]

And maybe add some limitation so it wont be exploited as a better RAID block, maybe max number of them connected to a server depending on server tier, and maybe only one server can connect to it and you would share the files to other PCs over the network

[Deliphin]

personally, I think 2 drives is okay, but limiting the rack in some way to keep it from being a better raid block, is not.

Instead, the rack should be upgraded to have more than 8 drives in it. Reason being, 4 RAID racks with 2 drives each will have 8 in a rack. The RAID block should be a dedicated storage method, better than anything not dedicated to storage.

Honestly, I find it already crazy that RAID blocks only store 3 drives, when servers can store 4. If you use some sort of networked storage, you could do 16 drives per rack without RAID blocks.

[JujuLynx]

I guess that comes down to cost vs convenience. There's in theory nothing to stop you writing your own software RAID and get up to 16 drives worth of storage in one block.

[AR2000AR]

personally, I think 2 drives is okay, but limiting the rack in some way to keep it from being a better raid block, is not.

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Honestly, I find it already crazy that RAID blocks only store 3 drives, when servers can store 4. If you use some sort of networked storage, you could do 16 drives per rack without RAID blocks.

@Deliphin make a good point with the server having 4 slots.
Maybe something like that could be done.
T1 : 2 drives
T2 : 3 drives (same as the block)
T3 : 4 drives
Each drive in the rack mounted RAID could take one compontent on CPU's limit to make it more balanced. Hardware RAID is a thing IRL.

[payonel]

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