[SOLVED] OT: Advice for RAID-Card ....

[WaltervdSchee]

All,

I'm currently running 14 local drives in my ProxMox VE system, they are running of a 16 port HighPoint RR2740 .
While this is 'fakeRAID' in the strickest sence, it is RAID0/1/10/5/50/6/60 using the HighPoint driver and webgui.
Its what HighPoint calls 'hardware assisted RAID'.

Problem is, the drivers are not really supported well by HighPoint, so, I'm looking for a replacement.
I'm looking for a single card with at least 16 ports.

I found the LSI MegaRAID 9260 16i, but I'm not sure how supported these are in RAID mode.
Can anyone shed a light on using the LSI cards in RAID mode in Linux / ProxMox VE ?
Perhaps any other suggestions for other cards ?

 

[mir]

Generally LSI are well supported in Debian (Proxmox is based on Debian). Other brands could be Areca or Adaptec. This page list all supported RAID controllers in Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/LinuxRaidForAdmins

 

[m.ardito]

see also
http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Hardware_RAID

Marco

 

[WaltervdSchee]

Allright you guys, I've taken the plunge and have ordered the LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260 16i + BBU !
Should arrive around Wednesday...