> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of John R Pierce > Sent: den 5 december 2013 18:55 > To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Third-party SATA-RAID cards suggestions > > well, 3 4 port hardware raid cards wouldn't be able to make a single > raid, you'd at best get 3 seperate raids, one per card, and when > managing it, you'd need to track which drive is on which card. Ok, poor research on my part. I assumed I could make a single big array using three cards. Bummer... Sorry about that one. > re hardware raid cards, I've not had any issues using LSI 926x-8i cards > (x = 0,1, different connector locations mostly), these are MegaRAID SAS2 > cards. again, with a SAS expander on a single 4-channel connector, I've > had as many as 36 SATA drives (in a RAID6+0, organized as 3 x 11 drives, > plus 3 hot spares), and gotten very good performance. So LSI 926x-cards works OOTB then? -- //Sorin
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