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I'm really worried who is going to handle network and raid going forward. LSI was the standard for hardware raid, 3com and others big network names. Now they are Broadcom, which basically means: * do as little as possible * axe most support * screw the little guy * milk milk milk * no real heavy R&D This means, to me, that lots of hardware and software is being handled far less diligently than Boeing. And that scares…
Hardware RAID is much less of a necessity nowadays than it was before. There are multiple options for highly performant/redundant storage, be it localised to a single box or across multiple boxes (such as ZFS or Ceph).
Yes exactly, between ZFS and Ceph I'm not too worried - and at the bleeding edge, NVMe is just changing the game completely because the drives are becoming so fast that they need their own dedicated PCIe lanes, so you don't want to bottleneck it through an HBA in any case, and the HBA just increases access latency.