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September 17th, 2010 20:00
How does a Perc6i RAID card work?
Hi.
I had some question about the Perc6i Raid card.
1. How do you connect the hard drives to the card? Is there a standard SATA connections are is there a special interface device needed for this connections.
2. Can you have your whole raid system in 1 computer or do you typically have a case for the drives with a cable running into a serer containing the raid cards?
3. Can you run this in a windows enviroment such as windows XP or do you have to have a special sever edition of the software.
4. Are there any special software needed like FreeNas or do you just need the drivers for the card to work with the operating system?
5. If a drive dies, does it tell you which drive or which port the drive has died on so you can change it?
Thanks for your hlep. I currently have a Netgear Readynas but I am looking to explain and was told that the Dell Perc6i card was a good way to do it.
Thanks for your help.
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September 20th, 2010 07:00
A PERC controller is something you put in a PowerEdge server. When you buy the server with the PERC, it comes with the cables already connected to the backplane in the server.
A PERC is NOT a way to expand a Netgear Readynas; they are completely unrelated. A NAS provides storage to your network whereas a raid controller allows you to set up a raid configuration so that a server can use this for a couple of reasons; redundancy, performance and/or overcoming the limits of harddrive sizes.