Well i went and got myself 5 new harddrives but i need to remove one drive from "RAID-1" to be able to make a "RAID-2" because the 9271-8i only got 2 SFF-8087 on the card...
just to backup the array (RAID-1) before adding the expander to the mix...
is it possible???
Hay!
I'm very new when it comes to raid so please forgive me if i ask stupid questions.
I have a RAID6 setup and it's 5 3TB drives and there connected with two "SAS to 4 SATA" and a few days ago i got a new computer case a "XCase RM 424 Pro" and it got SAS backplates so i ordered a Intel...
The drives was are not on the HCL list its a consumer drive. its soon done with the migration.
I honestly can't find the info if the updates are for this drive.. to upgrade the firmware i have to take that drive out of the array and upgrade it and then re-add it right?
I thought i had read it here :S It's being added right now.. will see in 35h. maybe i just got it all wrong but i thought that RAID systems wore really picky about firmware's and batches and stuff like that..
Hello!
I'm really new to this with raid (both hardware and software) but i got a LSI 9271-8i (latest firmware and software)
and everything has been great with the 4 drives i have have up and running for a while now but i now need to add a drive and the problem is that the new drive got a...
to do a speed test could i just change
"Write policy: Write Through" & "Disk cache policy: Disabled" to "Write policy: Always Write Back" & "Disk cache policy: Enabled"
I just got series on the array right now so no worries. I'm all about learning. :)
Seagate firmware page says that there is no update for my part model number. 1CH166 that's weird when there are drives that got CC24 and some that got CC43...
i got a Raid 6 up and running now but i only got 3 disk in it right now. and i just cleaned out the 4th one so I'm adding that one to the Raid 6 in just a few minutes.
feels great to finally gotten around and gotten my self a Raid controller and a bunch of disks..
Write policy: Always Write Back or Write policy: Write Through is the ones I'm mostly concerned about.. i have no clue what that one is about..
but also Read policy: Always Read Ahead
like i said before i have no BBU or a CacheVault.