Raid

Raid

gollumscave
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gollumscave
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#87

2012-02-26, 07:02

Yes, using the onboard raidchip to achieve raid5 isn't what you want...
It's commonly called "fake raid"...
If you choose to go for SoftRaid, then you need to findout if you can completely disable the raid functions of your controller. Most controllers don't support this. It usually involves flashing a new firmware to it and logically the manufacturers who produce an expensive hardware raid card don't put time and money into a firmware that disables that product.
If you use your LSI in your softraid setup the card will overrule the advanced commands (Read/write time-outs etc etc) of the drives which will result in a broken array that needs to be rebuild...
SuperMicro has mainboards (expensive) and raid cards that CAN be flashed to a firmware that disables the raid functions on specific models. They are called the IR (with raid) and the IT (with raid functions disabled) firmware.
The biggest advantage with softraid in my opinion is that in my situation I use 5 onboard sata connectors, 2x 4port sas connectors (onboard) 2x 4port sas connectors on a card and a 4port sata card, and combine them all into a large pool of drives.
This works perfectly and incredible speeds....

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Raid - by patseguin - 2012-02-12, 05:13

[No subject] - by gollumscave - 2012-02-12, 07:41

[No subject] - by jhsrennie - 2012-02-12, 11:48

[No subject] - by patseguin - 2012-02-12, 15:50

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[No subject] - by patseguin - 2012-02-12, 21:12

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[No subject] - by patseguin - 2012-02-12, 21:26

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[No subject] - by patseguin - 2012-02-13, 00:18

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[No subject] - by Orclas - 2012-02-13, 12:27

[No subject] - by patseguin - 2012-02-13, 13:24

[No subject] - by Hitcher - 2012-02-13, 16:27

Simpleton question - by Gr8rtek - 2012-02-13, 19:07

Raid Issues - by stutch - 2012-02-13, 20:01

[No subject] - by Orclas - 2012-02-13, 22:43

[No subject] - by KeithLM - 2012-02-14, 00:18

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[No subject] - by patseguin - 2012-02-26, 00:01

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