Hi folks,
I've got a 100 drive JBOD connected to my server via a 12 SAS connection to an LSI 9580 RAID card! I'll use this JBOD for large file storage!
I've got two options as far as I'm aware: either go with the BIOS management of the RAID controller, and create there a couple of RAID5 volumes and let the hardware do the RAID stuff, and thus format in software said volumes with EXT4 (because at this point using ZFS would yield few if any advantages to ext4) or treat the drives in BIOS as JBODs and skip the hardware RAID and go in software with ZFS pools for RAIDZ1.
What are your thoughts? What is the best approach and what are the drawbacks of both?
Thank you!
I've got a 100 drive JBOD connected to my server via a 12 SAS connection to an LSI 9580 RAID card! I'll use this JBOD for large file storage!
I've got two options as far as I'm aware: either go with the BIOS management of the RAID controller, and create there a couple of RAID5 volumes and let the hardware do the RAID stuff, and thus format in software said volumes with EXT4 (because at this point using ZFS would yield few if any advantages to ext4) or treat the drives in BIOS as JBODs and skip the hardware RAID and go in software with ZFS pools for RAIDZ1.
What are your thoughts? What is the best approach and what are the drawbacks of both?
Thank you!