I recently decided to shell out for a somewhat pricey RAID card for my home NAS. It wasn’t an easy decision, but I really wanted a card that supported Online RAID Level Migration (ORLM) and Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) at the hardware level.
Do I really need this at home? It turns out that I do. I am currently migrating my original two-disk RAID 1 array to a three-disk RAID 5 array, which will non-destructively double my usable space.
I don’t really have anything else to say about this; I just think it’s really cool. Good lord, I’m a geek.
I don’t want to be a stickler… but you didn’t precisely *prove* that you needed to have that at home.
I’m not saying that you don’t, by the way.
I guess my point is more that I’ve already used ORLM after owning the card for a couple of months. I’ve justified it in my own mind
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Some crazy people might even suggest that I don’t need a NAS at home at all…