April 5, 201412 yr With msa60 being very inexpensive offering hot swappable trays and redutant power supplies all for 100 that holds 12 hard drives. Well Smart array P812 is from 400 to 600 but P800 are only from 19 to 49.99 (batteries cache). P800 can support up to 8 petabytes but it is limited to 2.1tb per drive due to firmware, lsi chip should be capable of seeing hard drives over 2tb I hope someone could hack firmware to enable it. Well P800 has 16 ports so I guess 8 MSA60 can be run off one controller card this gives tons of storage. 2tb x 12 = 24tb x 8 =192 tb. Well going with P812 that allows for 16 MSA60 and 4tb hard drives that is 768 TB of hard drive space. Right now I have HP DL380 G6 with P800 and one msa60 I am planning on getting couple more. I am replacing my media server that had 8 drivers I running msa60 will take less power than my media server with hex amd cpu. What do you guys think I am shooting for 70 tb can unraid work well with logical drives ? Does anyone has any ideas for raid controller card that works with msa60 cases and supports over 3tb hard drive and are inexpensive.
April 6, 201412 yr I have one of these ... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816151031 in my server with 2 3T drives attached. They are in a "multi-RAID" configuration, 1 4T partition (RAID0), and 1 1T partition (RAID1). The 4T is my parity, the 1T is a separately mounted disk not in the array. unRAID works fine with them, but you give up the ability to get smart reports from the disks themselves, and you also give up the ability for unRAID to spinup and spindown the drives. (The controller, however, can be configured to perform a similar function). I can't speak for other cards as this is the only one I have experience with. Good luck finding hacked firmware for LSI. I have a BR10i with LSI 1068 and it is 2.2T limited. Despite firmware updates they are not enabling drive support for larger drives. Gotta love it when the marketing department makes these types of decisions. I am not an LSI fan. Much prefer areca. When I booted it up I found it was 2T limited, but immediately found a firmware update to support higher capacity disks.
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