[HP P212 Raid card and Drivepool]

Yes I did ask in a Ticket, sorry for doubling up! Just thought I may get several opinions!

 

I actually have several crappy HBA (pci & pcie) cards, the reason for keeping the P212 in the server is it is has 4 ports as the actual server board is limited on slots - ML110 G6

 

I also have to add a dual PCIe dual nic as it will also run my pfSense firewall on a VM.  

 

In saying this I could probably take the P212 out as I do like the idea of being able to see the SMART Data

[HP P212 Raid card and Drivepool]

Won't be an issue. I have 2 x P410 with 7 drives attached to each. Each drive has a RAID 0 array created on it and drivepool uses these for the pool. On the later P series cards (P44x) they have options for running in HBA or RAID mode.

 Cool and thanks for the reply!

 

I think some of the old cards had HBA as well. Only reason I am considering running this way is I have a heap of HDDs spare and may as well use them.

[HP P212 Raid card and Drivepool]

Hi all,

 

I am considering using a HP server which I have had laying around! It has a raid card in it, is it ok to create a raid drive (Raid 0 or 1) and then use drivepool over the top?

 

Does drivepool/scanner just see it as a normal hard drive? It shows up as 'HP Logical Volume SCSI Device'

Or could it screw up?

 

cheers