-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: den 5 december 2013 18:55 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] 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