Tag : hardware raid

CentOS 7 And Areca ARC-1883I SAS Controller: JBOD Or Not To JBOD?

Posted January 20, 2017 by Peter Peltonen & filed under CentOS Comments: 14

Tags: functionality, hardware raid, Linux Software RAID, SAS controller, Seagate Enterprise, the controller

Does anyone have experiences about ARC-1883I SAS controller with CentOS7?I am planning to have RAID1 setup and I am wondering if I should use the controllers RAID functionality which has 2GB cache or should I go with JBOD + Linux software RAID?The di..

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Mdraid Vs Hardware Raid, Was: Looking For A Life-save LVM Guru

Posted March 1, 2015 by Chris Murphy & filed under General Comments: 0

Tags: BBWC, device failure, hardware raid, shutdowns

I dont want to underestimate the value of good hardware RAID with BBWC implementations when it comes to avoiding problems that arent bugs, but are just the way things are. For example unclean shutdowns, and especially unclean shutdowns along with a dev..

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Hardware Raid Health?

Posted August 25, 2014 by Les Mikesell & filed under CentOS Comments: 6

Tags: drive light, hardware raid, linux software

I just had an IBM in a remote location with a hardware raid1 have both drives go bad.With local machines I probably would have caught it from the drive light before the 2nd one died…What is the state of the art in linux software monitoring for th..

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