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    maximum raid5 stripes using an SFF-8088 (4 lanes) controller

    Yes, I was thinking about having some sort of redundancy with more than one disk. My preferred solution would probably be a raid6 managed directly by LVM, in fact I had experience with XFS not taking correctly into account the number of stripes when using a raid5 managed my MDADM. I planned to...
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    maximum raid5 stripes using an SFF-8088 (4 lanes) controller

    Thank you @nexox, I am going to try this test as first one.
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    maximum raid5 stripes using an SFF-8088 (4 lanes) controller

    Yes, this enclosure has a second external port for an expander. I am still waiting for the delivery, but I will try to test all possibile raid configurations.
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    maximum raid5 stripes using an SFF-8088 (4 lanes) controller

    Yes, this is a testing environment, but I am going to store on that disks a few daily backups after testing. The disks I curently have are 1tb 5400rpm disks and I need as much space as possibile. Of 24 disks, I would create a single raid 5 with 20 disks and leave the 4 remaning as spares. But...
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    maximum raid5 stripes using an SFF-8088 (4 lanes) controller

    Hi, I am new to PCIe and SATA details and I would like to know if the number of raid stripes should match the SAS/SATA cable lines used by my controller. My machine is a DELL PowerEdge T40 with Debian GNU/Linux and an LSI controller 9207-8e plugged on a PCIe 3.0 slot connected to the PCH and...
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