It's not exactly data hoarding, but considering I want to use it in part for archiving, I figured it might fit here.
We have an Online Edit computer at work, mainly for color grading. We are currently running an older hardware card, an Atto R680 with 16 drives on it. We will soon replace all drives and I want to update the storage system at the same time, and I need one for another machine too for archiving.
For the archiving machine, I'll probably run TrueNas or something, that makes sense.
For the Windows editing station, I've been looking at software RAID for a long time but I have no idea how that would work in our situation. The drives already are in their own enclosure with their own psu and an SFF-8088 port. I was thinking of getting an LSI HBA instead of a RAID card and just connect the drives with a cable. What kind of solution can I run on Windows that would be somewhat reliable and fast? Running RAID 6 at the moment.
Is there a better solution? Something I'm not thinking about? I keep hearing software RAID is much better now, I wonder what's true?
Thank you!