On 10/9/20 10:02 pm, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
> I put a 1TB SATA disk in a Dell server with PERC RAID controller and
> configured that disk as a single virtual disk (IE the disk gets a RAID
> signature the PERC likes and is passed through to the OS). The disk when
> viewed on a regular SATA controller has 1953525168 sectors, when it goes
> through the PERC it has 1952448512 sectors, that is 525MB less space when
> going through the PERC! That's 1% of a 500G SSD.
0.1%
> Is there any way to configure PERC to reduce it? Is using "HBA" mode
> worthwhile?
If you won't be using the hardware RAID anyway, go for it. It might
even alleviate the need for the RAID controller cache battery.
Cheers,
Andrew
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