jasonfox

I have 3 servers and this plug in has been installed on each for years. Everything has worked well. So much so that I frequently forget to check back on them for months. I happened to be doing other things in the tools tab and had an 'oh yeah FIP' moment. So I started just looking around to be sure everything was still running smoothly and found that 2 of my machines were running MD5 and one was running SHA2 and I couldn't for the life of me remember why. I turned on the help setting (consistently amazed at how awesome the help is) and it reminded me of the blake2 option which I think I had passed on originally because it said it was proprietary and I had some aspirations of checking my backups externally or some such that of course I never did. I did a little quick googling of blake2 and learned that there is now a blake3 that is approx 5x as fast as blake2. Has any thought been given to adding this as an option?

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I'm looking for a replacement for this IO Crest card https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AZ9T264/ as it is Marvell based which is no longer recommended. When I updated the server its in to 6.7 I lost all 4 drives connected to it. Regression to 6.66 brought them back, but I'd prefer to find a long term solution. The difficulty is I'm using a Silverstone DS380 case: https://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=452 so I can't fit a full length card otherwise I'd pick up one of the LSI cards that have been previously recommended. Does anyone have a recommendation for a card that is short enough to fit in the DS380, can support 4 drives, doesn't run off a Marvell chipset, and is unraid compatible?