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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/5/2014 11:52 PM, Stephen P.
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/6/14, 12:49 AM, Mike Carron
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/5/2014 8:56 PM, Raymond Wagner
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<div>On Apr 5, 2014, at 14:46, Mike Carron <<a
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<font size="+1"><font face="Times New Roman">The RAID
volume is 4 2tb drives in a RAID1+0.<br>
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<div>Just the same, aside from ease of booting, there are only
disadvantages to running hardware RAID10, not to mention
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I guess a major factor in my decision is that I already own the
drives and the controller and if they don't get used for this
they are likely to collect dust for quite a while. Your commend
about running hardware RAID10 having only disadvantages is more
than a little interesting though. Care to expand?<br>
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I'm a tad curious as well, as my old Poweredge 2850's are cranking
along quite effectively with their hardware RAID.<br>
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RAID through a dedicated adapter of any sort locks you into that
vendor. The ASICs driving proper hardware RAID adapters (as opposed
to cheap soft-RAID adapters) exist to offload the XOR functions
necessary for RAID5/6, but the various forms of mirroring and
striping have no intensive computations to speak of. Basically, all
you're doing is sacrificing flexibility.<br>
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