Digimer wrote: > On 21/03/14 05:52 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Does anyone know if a PERC H200 is a real RAID controller? I'm about to >> build a box to CentOS 6.5 (it was Windows...) with RAID 6 on Monday, and >> this PE R610 has this.... I'm familiar with PERC 6 and 7s, but just >> dunno 'bout this one. > > It says it's a hardware RAID controller, but it only supports RAID > levels 0, 1 and 10. That tells me it has no real ASIC and so far as I > can see with google, it doesn't support caching or a BBU. So while it > might be "hardware", I doubt it's "real" in the sense that it can do > parity calcs, read/write reordering and write-back caching. > Thanks! That's what I needed to know, esp. since they want RAID 6. Sounds like software RAID to me, he said, cheerfully. mark