On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Tony Mountifield tony@softins.co.uk wrote:
I have no problem understanding the options and following the procedures. My question was just to see whether other people's experience would suggest it was worth the effort of going down the hardware RAID and proprietary driver route.
From the HP info
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantstorage/arraycontrollers/... it looks like this is a software raid card, you're probably better of just using mdraid unless your card has a flash backed write cache module _or_ you need drive format compatibility with other smart array controllers.
"...Eliminating most of the hardware RAID controller components, and relocating advanced RAID algorithms from a hardware-based controller into device driver software lowers the total solution cost,.."