sm2 Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 Any reason the above RAID card wouldn't work with unraid? You can switch it to JBOD operation at the controller level and it functions like any other HBA as far as I can tell. Many thanks J Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 It's an LSI card, so no particular reason why it wouldn't work. However, actual HBAs are usually preferred because even in JBOD mode not all controller properly passthrough the SMART attributes. Also, when doing this, make sure you label what drive is what. From forum surfing, JBOD mode on the controllers will assign a device ID that is vastly different than what the drive itself reports (ie: instead of ST4000DM-1F82B or similiar it would instead report the drive as a long string of numbers only) Not an issue in and by itself but makes replacing a drive in the eventuality you have to a bit harder if you don't have a reference as to what is what. Can't say for sure if that controller would suffer from these caveats or not. Quote Link to comment
sm2 Posted January 23, 2022 Author Share Posted January 23, 2022 Thanks for your reply. One other question that will save me some testing time, are block devices in the array mapped by GUID? Or in other words, can I move devices to other PHY's, or to an external enclosure and the array will be indifferent? Thanks J Quote Link to comment
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