Hi,
I'm soon setting up a shared webhosting server and am in need of some advice.
I'm planning to use 4x intel 520 SSDs in raid 10 with an E3 v2 CPU. However I am a bit unsure whether to use hardware raid or software raid with this setup. I originally thought I would go with hardware but I've noticed a few people recommend using software raid instead?
The server would be a HP ProLiant DL320e Gen8, and the hardware raid card would be HP Smart Array P222/512MB FBWC controller. One thing I notice looking at this server is this "NOTE: Only SATA 3 Gbit/s data transmission guaranteed without HP Smart Array Card" however I'm not sure how much of a problem this would be, in general the bandwidth of the data transfer probably wouldn't be that high, the SSDs are mainly there to give good IOPS. The raid controller is 6 Gb/s. The additional cost of the raid card isn't of concern, mainly interested in the performance, stability and whether it has any effect on the life time of the disks.
So, what are your recommendation, software raid or hardware raid?