Look at ZFS information and lists. ZFS prefers JBOD and raw drive access, so there is plenty of information out there about which controllers work best that way. LSI 9211-8i being one of the more popular ones. On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:21 AM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:44 PM, SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com> wrote: >> That's going to really drag if you have to configure a RAID0 for all >> 48 disks ... it'd be much easier if you could directly communicate >> with the drives. I've set up at most five or six RAID0 devices on one >> host and it's not particularly enjoyable! > > Well using the command line tools it is not bad at all - but my > question remains unanswered - how many logical devices can your card > have? I've hit my limit at 24 but I have 48 drives. So I need to > find a card that can do 48 logical devices. > > thanks > > > -- > “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” > - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos