I've bought a new Gen8 microserver and looking to migrate my build from the current N54L into it.
The N54L current has it's own boot disk (250GB) and the pool is made up of 2x 3TB and 2x 2TB individual drives. Drivepool sorts out all the file placement and Scanner has alerted me to disk issues late last year - hence the upgrade to 2x 3TB (replaced 2x 2TB).
The Gen8 is a bit of a sod in that it's funny about booting from a disk connected to the ODD port. I think I have 3 options:
1) Set the bios to 'legacy mode' and and have 5 disks addressable - I have to flag the ODD controller as a boot device.
2) Use AHCI and have to install on a drive in a LFF bay.... not ideal
3) Use the onboard b120i controller in RAID mode and set each disk as a RAID0 logical volume - so end up with 5x logical drives but no chance of Scanner working (and thus reliant on the iLO emailing me with disk issues....
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I've bought a new Gen8 microserver and looking to migrate my build from the current N54L into it.
The N54L current has it's own boot disk (250GB) and the pool is made up of 2x 3TB and 2x 2TB individual drives. Drivepool sorts out all the file placement and Scanner has alerted me to disk issues late last year - hence the upgrade to 2x 3TB (replaced 2x 2TB).
The Gen8 is a bit of a sod in that it's funny about booting from a disk connected to the ODD port. I think I have 3 options:
1) Set the bios to 'legacy mode' and and have 5 disks addressable - I have to flag the ODD controller as a boot device.
2) Use AHCI and have to install on a drive in a LFF bay.... not ideal
3) Use the onboard b120i controller in RAID mode and set each disk as a RAID0 logical volume - so end up with 5x logical drives but no chance of Scanner working (and thus reliant on the iLO emailing me with disk issues....
Any comments or advice would be appreciated,
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