[CentOS] CentOS on HP DL360e with B120i

Wed Jan 8 10:08:23 UTC 2014
Sander Grendelman <sander at grendelman.com>

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Tony Mountifield <tony at 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/dynamicsmartarray/
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,.."