I am prepping my supermicro server which has four 1TB WDC disks. If you have found the best setting for the Areca 1212 raid controller to use or have some recommendation please share it. I also have a question regarding disk initialization do I have to do this? I read online for RAID 10, there is no need. If I have to initialize the disks it will take about 30hrs or more to complete before I am able to use it. This particular Areca raid controller only has three initialization options Initialize disks, no initialization, and init for recovery.
My goal is to host a combination of KVM and OpenVZ guests.
These are the controller options I have chosen:
RAID 1+0
stripe size is 128kb
block size 512 bytes
Cache attribute - write-back
Taq Queuing - Enabled
Add Read Ahead Cache - Enabled
My goal is to host a combination of KVM and OpenVZ guests.
These are the controller options I have chosen:
RAID 1+0
stripe size is 128kb
block size 512 bytes
Cache attribute - write-back
Taq Queuing - Enabled
Add Read Ahead Cache - Enabled