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    MegaRAID - how do I reimport a lost VD+CacheCade array?

    Hi folks! I've got a 9260-8i with 6 x 3TB drives in RAID5 a CacheCade SSD a BBU unit Last night around 2am, my wife and I were woken up by the shrieking alarm from my 9260-8i controller. I powered the machine off and went back to bed. (Sleeping kids + angry wife + exhaustion == not wanting to...
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    Best Buy Geek Squad Certified Refurbished Samsung EVO SSDs, 1TB for $209, 500GB for $98

    1 TB = $209 = https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sams...Id=5948008 500 GB = $98 = https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sams...Id=5948009 250 GB = $73 = https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sams...Id=5948011 Reposted from Best Buy Geek Squad Certified Refurbished Samsung EVO solid state drives, 1TB for $209, 500GB...
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    Help me benchmark some MegaRAID controllers...

    Hi folks, Here's what I've currently got: NEC 9267-8i controller with BBU Six 3TB WD Red HDDs One 500GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD Ubuntu 17.04 machine, 16GB RAM, i7-4790k CPU (just consumer stuff) I thought the 9267-8i would do CacheCade, but it turns out I was wrong. This is for a home...
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    LSI 9267-8i and CacheCade - yay or nay?

    Hi all, I purchased an LSI 9267-8i controller card and an L3-25188-00A hardware key from Ebay. I *thought* the L3-25188-00A enables CacheCade 2.0. However, in the Advanced Software Options section of the WebBIOS configuration screen, only RAID5 and RAID6 are listed. If I remove the L3-25188-00A...
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    CacheCade - using RAID0 for mostly read-only application?

    Hi all, I'm building a Linux-based home fileserver. I have an LSI 9267-8i on the way, along with six 3TB WD Red drives in RAID6. The server will be primarily read-only (Plex server), and will idle most of the time. However, the array will be occasionally written to for OS upgrades, installing...
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    Please help me understand this MegaRAID BBU09 stuff

    Hello all! Long-time 3ware user here. I started out with a 3ware Escalade 7000-4 way back in the day. I remember loading the drivers from floppy to use with both Windows and linux. I remember having to edit the linux driver source and recompile to work around a bug. I eventually worked my way...