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.n...@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 <ri...@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? >> >> <snip> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ri...@alldigital.com - >> - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - >> - - >> - Overweight: When you step on your dog's tail...and it dies. - >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> -- >> users mailing list >> users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct >> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >> > >
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