Re: Power8 CEC EXP25s and Raid Sets

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh and unless you know something I don't it's an EXP24S. :-)

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 5/12/2014 4:21 PM, DrFranken wrote:

> With Performance as your choice you will get two RAID sets of 11 drives
> and two hot spares. That is assuming the new internal RAID card behaves
> like the current high end SAS RAID cards.
>
> If you did balanced or capacity you would likely get one RAID set of 2
> drives and two hot spares.
>
> All the good technical goo is here: http://bit.ly/1jb3Im7
>
>          - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
>
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> On 5/12/2014 12:29 PM, Kirk Goins wrote:
>
> > Suppose the following physical config. Please don't ask why would I do
> > that, this is Theory...
> >
> > 6 Drives in the SB14 CEC and say 18 attached to the same internal
> > controller as the 6 drives in the CEC. So effectively I have 24 drives on
> > the same controller. So If I use Raid5 with Hot Spare and Set to
> > Performance vs Balanced Will I get
> > A. 2 RAID sets with 2 hot spares as if all the drives were in the EXP24s?
> > B. 3 Raid sets ( 2 in EXP24s and 1 for the CEC )?
> > C. 2 raid sets ( 18 drives in the EXP24s and one set in the CEC?
> > D. ???
> >
> > Thanks