victorhooi
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Hi,
We have a Dell R610 server that we just purchased.
It comes with a Dell Perc 6i SATA/SAS controller card inside. We're currently using this with 2.5" SATA disks.
I was trying to configure this, and noticed that it supports RAID-0, RAID-1 and RAID-5 - but not JBOD.
I've heard that apparently there's a Dell SAS 6/IR card that is simpler, but does support JBOD. And apparently, it does support SATA drives.
However, it apparently has not backup battery. I'm just wondering, what else do we lose by going to the SAS 6/IR? Will performance suffer?
Will the lack of a battery mean it doesn't have writeback mode, right?
Or are there other basic SAS/SATA cards you could recommend that suppoort JBOD?
Regards,
Victor
We have a Dell R610 server that we just purchased.
It comes with a Dell Perc 6i SATA/SAS controller card inside. We're currently using this with 2.5" SATA disks.
I was trying to configure this, and noticed that it supports RAID-0, RAID-1 and RAID-5 - but not JBOD.
I've heard that apparently there's a Dell SAS 6/IR card that is simpler, but does support JBOD. And apparently, it does support SATA drives.
However, it apparently has not backup battery. I'm just wondering, what else do we lose by going to the SAS 6/IR? Will performance suffer?
Will the lack of a battery mean it doesn't have writeback mode, right?
Or are there other basic SAS/SATA cards you could recommend that suppoort JBOD?
Regards,
Victor