Perc s300 internal software controller

Last reply by theflash Solved. HarryTax 2 Bronze. PERC S hardware or software. All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Solution 1. Accepted Solutions. Community Accepted Solution. Replies 3. Post Reply. Top Contributor. Dell Support Resources. I'm not sure what they mean by non-raid, my guess is that it supports connecting drives and not setting up any RAID arrays, just like any other controller, I don't even know why they put that info there.

Or JBOD just a bunch of drives. I understand the impulse to do this, but I disagree with it now. I definitely still have machines I configured this way.

It takes a really serious examination and tuning to set up partitions that match IOPS requirements. Having that tuning only makes sense if your IOPS profile is static. Whereas during boot up, data is hardly ever accessed, but after that And it gives your data 2 more spindles in the RAID Corrupt your OS never happens, does it?

My job requires data protection and security and it is far easier to do both when the data is on a separate system. If speed is your goal, John is right, but if security and data protection is your goal, I would advise separation. You waste some space if you don't have thin provisioning and slightly increase the management, but I don't see why a dedicated RAID pair is needed for this.

Then again, I work with local storage so rarely these days maybe I'm forgetting something. If I have a server go crazy on me, I just tell Veeam to revert the OS volume, or the server to its previous state and pull out the toasted system's virtual disks to copy what data I need off of them. Are you confusing single array with single LUN? Your best bet is a dedicated HBA. That's 4 or 8 internal ports, depending on what you need. Sign up to join this community.

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