Why wouldn’t you? It is the most flexible out if all of them.

Don’t hold your breath

Your information is about 10 years out of date. It is trivial to do boot with raid as in EFI you just set both drives as bootable.

I think hardware raid is only for the last resort as Windows has Storage sense and Linux has ZFS, LVM and mdadm. I’ve never heard of a hardware raid system that has the features a lot of these systems have like data integrity checking and ram caching.

Essentially I don’t really see a need for hardware raid in a home environment and there isn’t a huge need in the business.

People are crazy. I’ve met people who are convinced that 5Ghz keeps them from sleeping.

Don’t use 192.168.1.x

Its more than just promising

Why would it? OpenSUSE isn’t a good choice for a base system it is fairly obscure and the base is rather large.

Get rid of snap and I’m interested

You technically can with software raid

Not to mention you can get important features like checksums and data validation.

At some point you need a clean room

Why wouldn’t you just use software raid? It is way more robust and if you are using ZFS you get all the nice features that come as a part of it.

Frankly hardware raid is dead and was never great. Software raid is significantly better.

Not to mention hardware raid is dependent on a functional card. You are in trouble if the card has problems. Also hardware raid doesn’t do data validation

You are describing software raid which is the only thing really used these days. There are so many issues with hardware raid.

You really do not want hardware raid. You want software raid like LVM or better yet, ZFS.

Do your own research. Keep in mind raid isn’t a backup. It is only for convenience.

Yeah I would want at least 2 years

Pray we don’t alter the dead further

I’d be really curious about where is came from. Was it just in a warehouse somewhere?

I personally wouldn’t go for used drives. However, if you do make sure to get it from a reliable source that offers a warranty. Be ready to replace the disk when the warranty ends.