searching raid 6 card working with fedora 23

[thibaut noah]

Confirm the hp h240 to work out of the box with fedora 23 driver (hp
drivers are not yet up to date with latest kernel)

2016-02-03 20:20 GMT+01:00 thibaut noah <thibaut.noah at gmail.com>:

> My raid drives consume 11w per disk at maximum load and i have more than
> 400w left on my power supply.
>
> Thanks for the clarification
>
> I will have the hba card so that will be ok, 5satas port is ok with an
> al-x motherboard, the problem might be the number of pci ports and the vt-d
> compatibility.
>
> 2016-02-03 19:20 GMT+01:00 Rick Stevens <ricks at alldigital.com>:
>
>> On 02/03/2016 01:15 AM, thibaut noah wrote:
>>
>>> I think i misunderstood what you guys said about jbod (my fault for
>>> reading quickly), i talked about the jbod feature, not a hardware piece.
>>> My disks are sitting in my desktop, if i buy an external storage for the
>>> disks i might as well build a nas, which is what i do not want, i'm
>>> looking for internal connection not external.
>>>
>>> was crawlking lsi and highpoint cards, cards between 200 to 300+$$, not
>>> really what i call cheaper stuff that's aimed at Winblows users ;)
>>>
>>
>> Putting 6 or 8 drives inside your chassis is really not a normal
>> situation. Are you sure your power supply can handle it? You also
>> mentioned somewhere that you have several GPUs and such. That would
>> tax your power supply even more. Remember, spinning drives eat a lot
>> of power when first "spun up".
>>
>> I recommended a JBOD for the reason that it eliminates the need for
>> a gazillion SATA or SAS connectors on your motherboard, cleans up the
>> cabling and doesn't put a ridiculous load on your power supply. As to
>> building a NAS, you'd need a motherboard with the same number of
>> connectors, huge power supply, and all the drives to build your NAS and
>> yeah, it's a right pain to build. With the JBOD, you need the HBA (one
>> PCI slot), the JBOD and the drives and all of this is easily
>> transferable to your new system when the new motherboard you want comes
>> out. It'd be faster than a NAS as well as supporting native file
>> systems with all the ACLs, permissions and goodies (NFS and CIFS don't
>> support that well).
>>
>> Regarding the new motherboard, will it have all the SATA/SAS connectors
>> you need to drive this array or are you going to be in the same boat as
>> you are now?
>>
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