Re: using PERC H700 for JBOD?

"D. Jared Dominguez" <[email protected]>
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The H830 is for external direct attached storage.

Does the H330 provide the desired feature set? The H730 is a higher end 
card designed for advanced hardware RAID.

--Jared


On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 05:06:00PM -0600, Cameron Smith wrote:
>The newish H830 offers Non-Raid (JBOD). Not a fit for your application but just
>throwing this out there for others reference:
>http://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/
>Dell-PowerEdge-RAID-Controller-H830.pdf
>
>
>Cameron Smith
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>On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Dan Yasny <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>    You can definitely create a bunch of raid0 using single drives. However,
>    this is not going to give the host kernel and it's modules (ZFS etc) direct
>    access to the disks and isn't really JBOD. You are still going through the
>    controller, using the controller cache.
>
>    This is not a great solution for ZFS, and it has been mentioned as such too
>    many times over the years.
>
>    I wish Dell finally came through with a real JBOD mode in those PERCs, but
>    afaik it's still low priority for them.
>
>    On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Bond Masuda <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>        I've read in various places online that it is not possible to use PERC
>        H700 for JBOD for folks who want to use LVM2 or ZFS to glue their own
>        storage together instead of RAID in the H700. I recall with the old
>        PERC6/E, I could simply create a RAID-0 VD with 1 disk and in effect
>        access each of those disks individually. I remember specifically doing
>        this on a PE2970 connected to a MD1000 array. Is that not possible with
>        the H700?
>
>        Bond
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Jared Domínguez
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Linux Engineering
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