Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2012-06-14

BBU + Writeback Controller suggestions please?

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From: Ed W <hidden>
Date: 2012-06-14 16:10:59

Hi, repeat of an older question I asked some months back.  Looking to add BBU writeback "HBA" to run software raid over the top.  So ideally I want either a raid controller which can pretend to be an HBA with 4 individual drives each with writeback cache (and a battery).  Or at a pinch I would accept a controller which can offer 2 pairs of RAID-1 with writeback cache and I would run linux raid-0 (or XFS storage groups) over the top - caveat that I would very much desire that if the hardware controller fails I can pull the individual raid-1 drives out and access them from a vanilla motherboard controller?

The goal is to be able to safely enable writeback caching on a 4 drive RAID10 (or XFS over raid-1), but if the controller should fail (or even just an urgent need to access the data from a second machine) then I can access the arrays from another machine which doesn't have such a controller. Operating system is a recent linux 3 kernel

Can anyone comment on whether such a hardware card exists (seems it's hard to get writeback caching on drives *and* have those drives readable without the same controller present). Currently eyeing up the Areca 1882 8 port unit - thoughts?

Thanks for any advice

Ed W
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