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And more chances of failure. The benefit is less time to repair a RAID set

Yeah this is what sold me as well.

Me and a coworker got a couple. Going to try to use these on a couple of Dell machines without idracs at work.

Every website I bookmark in case it goes away

Yeah me neither. It’s going in my homelab this afternoon.

Have you ever installed VCSA? The storage requirements for even the tiny install are insane. So 8gb seems tiny comparatively. I think the default for VCSA 8.0 is like 600 GB