Re: RAID card selection - JBOD mode / Linux RAID

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Look at ZFS information and lists.  ZFS prefers JBOD and raw drive
access, so there is plenty of information out there about which
controllers work best that way.

LSI 9211-8i being one of the more popular ones.


On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:21 AM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:44 PM, SilverTip257 <silvertip257@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> That's going to really drag if you have to configure a RAID0 for all
>> 48 disks ... it'd be much easier if you could directly communicate
>> with the drives.  I've set up at most five or six RAID0 devices on one
>> host and it's not particularly enjoyable!
>
> Well using the command line tools it is not bad at all - but my
> question remains unanswered - how many logical devices can your card
> have?  I've hit my limit at 24 but I have 48 drives.  So I need to
> find a card that can do 48 logical devices.
>
> thanks
>
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