Sandro Possa wrote: > Hi all, > > So, I was about to order a r710, and asked for 6 disks of 1TB each, to > build a raid10 array with them. > > The odd part is that my sales rep told me that he couldnt sell me this > config - 6x1TB disks in a raid10 array - because "the sum of all disks > in a raid10 can be greater than 3.6TB". He said it twice, so I'm > positive that he meant what he said. But, if I did a raid5, it was fine, > I could use all the disks. > > After some googling I found nothing that could lead me to this > information. Reading PERC 6/i and 6/E documentation I found nothing too. > > Do any of you ever heard about this? >
I am certain this is wrong, I have a r710 (and a 2950) with 1tb disks and raid 10 running right now. What your sales rep may have meant was they cannot sell it with a RAID 10 config because they do not have a disk image big enough for that. We got ours with RAID 5 and rebuilt. One other thing to note you cannot create more than one Virtual disk with raid10, so you will need to use GPT for partitioning. _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
