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RAID solution with hardware assistance. RAID parity calculations can be performed by either the main CPU, or by a separate processor on the RAID controller card.

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Differences between HW RAID and ZFS

Background I'm installing Proxmox Virtual Environment on a Dell PowerEdge R730 with a Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) H730 Mini Hardware RAID controller and eight 3TB 7.2k 3.5" SAS HDDs. I was contemplating using the PERC H730 to configure six…
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If a RAID controller fails, does it disrupt service until it's replaced?

If I have 2 drives in a RAID 1, and the Raid Controller fails, does that mean the websites on the server will have downtime until the controller is replaced? Or does everything still carry on as software raid automatically until the faulty raid card…
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Is there a linux monitoring utility for Dell PERC H700?

I'm looking for a utility to monitor my RAID 5 setup, the card is a Dell PERC H700 with the following chipset: [root@example.net ~]# lspci -v|grep LSI 03:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2108 [Liberator] (rev 05) The…
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How is LSI FastPath different from Software RAID?

This question pertains to SSDs on RAID levels without parity (like RAID 0, 1, 10). The recommended settings for FastPath are to set the Write Policy to Write Through, Read Policy to No Read Ahead and IO Policy to Direct. This disables the cache on…
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Trim support in Hardware RAID (Perc H700)

We are about to order a dell R610 with a H700. We were thinking of using 2 X Samsung 850 Pro 512Gb drives in RAID 1. The question is does the Perc H700 support TRIM in hardware RAID 1? The answers I have found from googling around seem to indicate…
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Replace HP Smart Array E200i without losing data

I've got a Smart Array 200i which seems to have some bad slots (slot 3 and slot 5). It doesn't matter what HD I put in these slots, it keeps telling me the drive is bad. My question is two-fold: Is it perhaps just something I'm doing wrong? I was…
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RAID level confusion (MegaCli vs megasasctl output)

I'm utterly new to working with LSI MegaRAID controllers and I'm confused as to what RAID level I am actually running. My server is equipped with 4 disks, 4TB each and I would like to have them running in RAID-10. Searching around for some hints…
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LSI RAID: Write cache policy affects read performance?

I have a server with a LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-4i controller, RAID-5 with 3 x 2 TB disks. I did some performance testing (with iozone3) and the numbers show clearly that the write cache policy affects the read performance as well. If I set the policy…
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LSI 9260-8i w/ 6 256gb SSDs - RAID 5, 6, 10, or bad idea overall?

We're provisioning a new production server for our reasonably busy website. Our choice of host have available a 6 drive configuration with a LSI 9260-8i card. My initial thought was to fill all six bays with SSDs (Intel 520 256gb) and set them up in…
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Linux: How to align partition and file system on hardware RAID

I have a test box (PowerEdge 2950) with a Perc 6/i and 4x 15.5k SAS drives attached (with 512 byte block sizes). These are in a single RAID 5 virtual disk with a 64KB chunk size. I am creating a single test partition that spans the whole drive.…
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Non-volatile cache RAID controllers: what kind of protection is there against NVCACHE failure?

The battery back-up (BBU) model: admin enables write-back cache with BBU writes are cached to the RAID controller's RAM (major performance benefit) the battery saves uncommitted and cached data in the event of a power loss (reliability) If I lose…
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I have a 21TB array but only 16TB is visible from Windows

CONTROLLER Raid Controller: 3Ware 9650SE-24M8 Disks: 21 x 1TB RAID5 Stripe 64KB WINDOWS OS: Windows Server 2003 SP2 32x Disk: Dynamic 19557.44GB Volume: Capacity 15832.19GB I guess my array must have a 4KB block size which is limiting it to…
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Areca - expanding a raid by swapping out disks for larger ones

What I am looking to do is, one by one, replace the drives in my current raid array (in a 1680i). After the drives are replaced by their larger counterparts, I want to do an online expand of the array. Can this be done?
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Four disks - RAID 10 or two mirrored pairs?

I have this discussion with developers quite often. The context is an application running in Linux that has a medium amount of disk I/O. The servers are HP ProLiant DL3x0 G6 with four disks of equal size @ 15k rpm, backed with a P410 controller and…
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Would unplugging a drive simulate a drive failure?

I just set up a RAID 1 array, 2 2tb drives mirrored. I am wondering what will happen if one were to fail. Would unplugging one of them be a valid test? I am using the Onboard controller of an asus M4A89TD pro series motherboard. Thanks, Blake
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