Hi Joe, On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 08:18:32AM -0400, Joe Landman wrote: >> On 20/05/2011 03:08, Andy Smith wrote: >>> Are there actually any HBAs that have BBU without using their RAID >>> features? >>> >>> I'd like to stop using hardware RAID but I can't give up the BBU and >>> write cache. > > HBAs don't have BBU or write cache. Only RAIDs do. While you can run > the RAID in JBOD mode, you effectively lose the cache (and BBU) aspect by > doing so. That's what I thought, thanks. It's a shame; maybe there will be disks with battery-backed cache one day. Cheers, Andy
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