[geeks] HP CrapRAID problem

[David Brownlee]

On 20 October 2014 09:30, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
>[...]
> The onboard RAID is a SmartArray B120i which is apparently a cheap fake
> software RAID controller. It needs a proprietary driver to work with closed
> binary sources.
>[...]
> - Drop $$$ on a real RAID card with decent OSS drivers (suggestions?)
> - Turn off the CrapRAID and use the pair in a Linux software RAID1
> - Try and pull in the kermel module during the debian install

Unless the "Win"RAID offers significant additional performance over
generic software RAID I would definitely pick the latter, primarily
just in case the hardware fails and I needed to bring up those disks
immediately in another box...