[K12OSN] Just about ready to make a purchase

[Les Mikesell]

Jim Kronebusch wrote:
>> Seems kind of pricey for an extra scsi cable though. Most likely you
>> can't just buy another scsi cable as Dell has to integrate it into the
>> backplane.
> 
> yeah, the $300 price tag is for the split 2x5 backplane instead of the single 1x10
> backplane.  But after going back and running through the config with the 2x5 backplane I
> don't have the option for RAID 10.  So either they just don't give me a radio button to
> select, or it isn't possible to spread the RAID across the split backplane.  I will call
> Dell to confirm this.  I can see the benefit to using two controller interfaces.

If you want it to survive a controller/cable failure you'd need to do 
software raid1 with one drive on each side.  I'm not sure it would be 
worth the trouble.

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    Les Mikesell
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