> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David > Hubbard > Sent: zondag 21 maart 2010 21:59 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: External array showing as /dev/sda > > 1) Internal array I had desired to be single RAID 50 > across 8 drives. Thanks to Dell's choice of LSI > for their current raid controllers and LSI missing > the feature that most others seem to have in being > able to present parts of one array as multiple > logical drives, I ended up having to waste the first > two drives to make a RAID 1 mirror smaller than 2 TB > and then only six remaining drives in the RAID 50.
No sure which controller you have, but with the perc5/6 you can create multiple virtual disks ? I have one PE2950 server with a Perc5i with 6 * 750GB drives, with a 150gb boot vdisk, and a 3TB vdisk. (raid5) Stephan _______________________________________________ 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
