On Feb 5, 2012, at 6:33 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > I just tried a bunch of combinations on a 3 x 11 raid60 configuration > plus 3 global hotspares, and decided that letting the controller (LSI > 9260-8i MegaSAS2) do it was easier all the way around. of course, with > other controllerrs, your mileage may vary. and yes, megacli64 is an > ugly tool to tame. Some controllers are better. Software based stripes do allow you to span RAID controllers though which provides a lot of flexibility. When I do do software striping I do it within LVM instead of creating a RAID0 as I found it easier to manage long term. -Ross