Is your use case affected by the recent Broadcom buyout? According to the dog developer the main reason for setting up ESXi on a Pi 5 is to practice migrating the VMs to Nudogix or Dogmox.GE,
Thanks for all your resposes.
The reason, why I need HW RAID is due to EXSi...
Why EXSi?... Don't have to time to study "how to" in Proxmos... And it's more comfortable and user friendly (for me).
I was wondering why it's still not possible.
.What a great deal could be achieved with X1007 and X1004 if HW RAID supported.
I am in IT for several years too and I know that HW raid is not reliable, but same for SW raid...
Perhaps one day RasPi guys provide some changes and surprise us with HAT/s for HW raid.
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Back on topic, my understanding is RAID does not increase availability unless combined with a UPS. Performance is not much increased either since a single SSD will saturate the I/O bus on a Pi.
If none of these things are an issue, then a multi-bay USB enclosure with built-in hardware RAID is likely better than any Pi-specific hat.
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