ThanasisPolitis Posted May 22, 2023 Share Posted May 22, 2023 Hello I am building a new unraid server with 8 drives in total. 6 drives are for data and 2 will be parity. There are two controllers on the motherboard with the Intel one handling 6 SATA ports and the Marvel one handling 2 SATA ports. What would be the best practice for the Parity drives? Keep them on one Controller or split them between the two? Regards, Thanasis Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted May 22, 2023 Share Posted May 22, 2023 3 hours ago, ThanasisPolitis said: Marvel one If possible, avoid using the Marvel controller completely. Marvel support has always been iffy and problematic due to their buggy drivers etc. 1 Quote Link to comment
ThanasisPolitis Posted May 23, 2023 Author Share Posted May 23, 2023 13 hours ago, Squid said: If possible, avoid using the Marvel controller completely. Marvel support has always been iffy and problematic due to their buggy drivers etc. Thank you @Squid, very helpful! I will get an HBA that is based on a non Marvell chipset. The question remains then, is it best to split the Parity between two different controllers or keep both Parity drives on the same controller? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 It shouldn't make any difference. 1 Quote Link to comment
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