#Lenovo thinkserver lsi raid driver software#
#Lenovo thinkserver lsi raid driver windows#

Check out something like an 'IBM ServeRAID M5016 Controller' on ebay. I'm not extremely well versed on IBM servers as I don't encounter that many of them, but if you have an onboard RAID controller it's highly likely that you could put a $150 LSI equivalent in the machine that is supported by that generation of server that would support RAID 0,1,5,6,10,1+0, etc, handle a puncture, allow for expansion, have a battery, and have higher throughput. Those 14tb discs you're looking at are NOT ACCEPTABLE FOR RAID! I'm presuming that you're looking at similar 6tb models that would also not support RAID, though you could get WD's in 8TB RE that would be usable on a RAID controller.ДЄll that said, if you're trying to get 12TB of reliable storage for a server, throwing $1500 worth of hard drives on a $30 controller is a horrible idea. The other thing you seem to not be considering here is TLER.

#Lenovo thinkserver lsi raid driver software#

Generally speaking, I would not recommending using a software RAID controller for 1) Any situation where you can't have the 4th bay as a hot spare 2) Large arrays that are very susceptible to punctures (really this means anything like 3x2tb is starting to push it). Software RAID controllers will never be capable of handling a puncture and can also have a tendency to fail catastrophically if a single disk has a write error on its own without communicating that to the controller (like a bad cable or a power failure during write). There's nothing inherently wrong with RAID 5 until you get to large disk sets (which you're talking about). While I'm not any fan of RAID 5, but due to max hdds it allows 6TB and to achieve maximum usage space, I will require to use RAID 5. I would presume that this is one of those vs something like a PERC or an LSI with its own memory (and preferably battery). Recently considering to have some kind of RAID on it, and found this server has on board RAID Controller for ThinkServer RAID 100, which supports upto RAID 5. Typically the onboard RAID controllers are software RAID (like Dell SAS iR controllers). What you're describing does not sound like a good idea.

#Lenovo thinkserver lsi raid driver windows#

If not, I was considering adding 14 TB x 2 internal drives instead and do some software RAID feature on Windows server 2012 R2, if performance of above one is really terrible. Somewhere I seen that RAID itself or RAID 5 on this server or on this RAID controller is terrible, any idea specially about this? Recently considering to have some kind of RAID on it, and found this server has on board RAID Controller for ThinkServer RAID 100, which supports upto RAID 5. I have a ThinkServer TS140, which was running Windows server 2012 without RAID on it, I understand servers in general need to run on RAID, but lack of budget or not so serious services running, it was going on.