[CentOS] OT: DELL PERC H200

m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at 5-cent.us
Fri Mar 21 22:09:08 UTC 2014


Digimer wrote:
> On 21/03/14 05:52 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> Does anyone know if a PERC H200 is a real RAID controller?  I'm about to
>> build a box to CentOS 6.5 (it was Windows...) with RAID 6 on Monday, and
>> this PE R610 has this.... I'm familiar with PERC 6 and 7s, but just
>> dunno 'bout this one.
>
> It says it's a hardware RAID controller, but it only supports RAID
> levels 0, 1 and 10. That tells me it has no real ASIC and so far as I
> can see with google, it doesn't support caching or a BBU. So while it
> might be "hardware", I doubt it's "real" in the sense that it can do
> parity calcs, read/write reordering and write-back caching.
>
Thanks! That's what I needed to know, esp. since they want RAID 6. Sounds
like software RAID to me, he said, cheerfully.

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