The reality is that they were just lazy in writing the interface. You can make some crazy argument that a single drive is a RAID 0 with just one drive and that RAID 1+0 is a 0 sized stripe, but really, that's just dumb. The SmartArray developers were too lazy to put RAID 1 when it was two drives and RAID 10 when it was 4+. That's specifically whom I'm referring to. then it doesn't have any RAID on it.īut SAM, have you noticed that HP is doing RAID 1+0 even for two drives in RAID 1? It was so frustrating for me the first time they did it & I know you're an HP fan. If the mobo doesn't give you the power to configure. Hardware RAID is always defined in the hardware - it cannot be done in the OS because it has to be done before there is an OS. But people really don't know their RAID levels and it creates this confusion. Lots of people who don't know their RAID levels say this because some drive controllers don't bother to say the right level at the right time. There is no such thing as RAID 10 with 2 drives, that is RAID 1. Or with this particular Mobo I have no choice? Thanks!īy definition, 4 is the minimum. Is this done at an OS level, or somewhere else. Is this a "recommended 4, but 2 will work" or "4 is truly the minimum?Īlso, I have configured my the RAID controller (onboard Asus P5N-D) to actually be active, but I am confused as to where I configure the actual Type of RAID (i.e. Some say 4, some say 2 - what is the real answer. I have heard conflicting information on what the minimum number of drives needed for a RAID 10 would be. Although, RAID 10 (which is what I usually use) work be most beneficial, not not necessary.
All I am really looking for here is redundancy, so a RAID 1 would work.
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Obviously on Linux you don't want to do this because Linux has extremely high performance RAID drivers built in that you would always use instead.
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If you have software RAID, then this doesn't work and you have to install special drivers. The RAID system will be presented to the OS (any OS) as a single, abstracted drive that you can treat like a normal drive. Hardware RAID requires no support from the OS. Can anyone give me the steps in doing this? Would I install Ubuntu on one drive first, and then create the RAID? or can I use the LiveCD and do this, or is it something that needs to be done before I do anything else.
Problem is, I have lots of experience using and maintaining a RAID, but absolutely 0 experience actually installing RAID from a custom solution like this. However, I plan on using Ubuntu 64-Bit on this box and want to setup a hardware RAID 10 on the built-in card on the mobo, which is an Asus P5N-D. I have a new whitebox server that I am building, which I have done many times before - with both Linux and Windows.so no problem there.
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