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• New MBP and two raid 0 drives 4 GB 7200 rpm or replace a small SSD

  Hello

  I apologize if this in the forum somewhere.  I'm looking for 4 hours through the posts and cannot find an answer to this question.

  I ordered a new Macbook Pro products listed below.

  MacBook Pro 15 inch with Retina display

  • 2.8 GHz Quad - core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 4.0 GHz
  • 16 GB 1600 MHz SDRAM DDR3L
  • Storage 1 TB PCIe Flash
  • Graphics card Intel Iris Pro + AMD Radeon R9 M370X with 2 GB of GDDR5 memory

  
  

  In my research, it seems that the best configuration will add two additional discs.

  
  

  I want to purchase the LaCie 9000601 robust Raid Thunderbolt.  Its configured as a RAID 0 4 GB (2x2gb configured raid 0) read and write speed is rated at 240 MB/sec.  For the third disc is there going to be any speed up if I did for one SSD drive with read and write speeds above 400 MB/s?  If I won't see any significant speed I would make the 3rd disc an additional LaCie.

  
  

  So the two configurations:

  #1

  C: 1 PCIe storage to Flash

  D: drive for raid 0 4 GB lightning

  E: drive for raid 0 4 GB lightning

  
  

  #2

  C: 1 PCIe storage to Flash

  D: drive for raid 0 4 GB lightning

  E: 500 MB SSD with reading and writing of at least 400 MB/s

  
  

  I will mainly be 4K video editing from a 3 ghost drone.  Most of the videos will need only some basic edition/transitions and possibly a color correction.  I would like to modify in real time or near it and have always render as low as possible. I will be editing in Premiere Pro CS6 and could switch to CC.

  
  

  I appreciate all the comments.  If it not is not much of a difference, I would #1 configuration where it provides an extra 3.5 GB or storage and is cheaper at the same time.

  
  

  Thanks for your comments and help.

  
  

  Gary
  

  It seems that the ghost 3 mp4/h264 files? These files will be slightly compact vs other formats, reducing the demand placed on the disc. LaCie rugged raid should operate correctly for the media to hold, and then you can set the project on the C: drive cache. If you work on small projects, you will be able to store everything on the flash disk and the backup to an external drive. If you want to keep on an external drive media, the DSS will provide faster response times to access the various elements when editing.

• two pairs of Raid 0 configuration

  I get a parts list for a system using the Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD5-B3motherboard and five WD 1 TB SATA 6 Gbps black disks. A reader will be my main OS drive. The other 4 will be configured in two pairs of raid0. A pair will be used for my support of source and the other pair will be used for export. (OS) disc will go on one of the two ports 6 Gbps (SATA3_0). Four others go on four ports of 3 Gbps (SATA2_2, 3, 4, 5). I can configure two volumes Raid 0 on the controller chipset Intel? I'm not find clear documentation on how to proceed. The other option would be to buy the UD7 motherboard and put one of the pairs two raid 0 on the Marvell chip, but I think it would be less desirable.

  Thanks in advance for the help!

  Can I configure two volumes Raid 0 on the controller chipset Intel?

  Don't see how that would be a problem. My experience is with the UD7 Commission, but they are quite similar.

  I'm not find clear documentation on how to proceed.

  In short (and this is not a guide) place the RAID controller in the BIOS, reboot, pull up the RAID configuration menu and follow the instructions in the manual. 83 to 85 pages describe the process very well.

  Don't worry all the stuff 'do this or that before installing Windows' unless you plan a RAID operating system drive.

• Mac Mini server RAID spoil

  This follows a previous thread of mine.  Previously, the Mac mini server (2009, 3.1 I think) would not start.  The Apple logo and the spinning wheel seems forever.

  I found the boot disk and a USB optical drive and so I went in disk utility.  I got the software RAID 1 set up.  Hard drives were fine, physically, but the whole RAID said it is "degraded" and one of the volumes said it failed.  I tried rebuilding it but failed.  I did not delete the volume down, instead, I deleted the whole RAID, thinking that I would be able to start the disks as standalone.  Instead, or volumes are mounted, they not only mount when I click Mount, and when I turn on the machine, I now get the folder with the?.  No volumes appear when I hold down the option key when starting.  I tried discs of fixation of the Terminal and he says they were mounted with success, but they were not.  I must be missing something in the commands, I don't know them well.  I tried to create a new RAID array, but he said that all the data would be deleted.  At any given time, two RAID volumes said that they failed, and then the RAID array would not appear or appear offline as opposed to gradient.

  I screwed myself by removing the raid array?  Both drives are dismantled and their partition type is "Apple_RAID_Offline".

  Can I fix this and back up my data?

  I fixed readers are not mounted or named myself.  They are (were) mounted as an independent non-RAID drives.  They needed to be repaired and could not repair one of them says however, disk utility.  Disk utility also told me at my backup files and wipe the readers.  How can I back up my files if I can't start the machine?  There is no Finder on Mac OS X Server installation disc.

  Any suggestions?

  Solution to readers being dismantled: https://www.27partners.com/2010/07/repairing-appleraid/

• Raid change from 0 to 1 volume

  I recently bought a hp h8 - 1220t.  I asked two raid disks I could create a raid 1 volume.  When he arrived, the raid drives have already been created as a volume 0.  How can I change this?  I need two hard drives mirrored.  Thank you

  I think the Drobo solution might be one of my five computers.  I'll just keep HP in a large disc mode.  I really appreciate your help on this.  For HP to rebuild my computer is worse than dying a thought.  Thank you very much for your time and your good thoughts.

  wire

• PowerVault 725N RAID: How can I reflect my C: disk 0 to 1 disk partition?

  How can get to reflect the current information on the first partition of drive 0, the system C: drive on the first partition of disk 1?

  I got an emergency call in someone with a Dell PowerVault 725N, who I don't know.  Of what I read, it was established as a generally as a two RAID-1, one for OS C:, d plant: OS, and a great RAID-5 set all 4 drives E:.  He lost a disc.  However, when he lost a disk, RAID-5 was no longer working with one bad drive.  Obviously, that shouldn't happen, but it did.  I gathered that training was suspended the bus sometimes because sometimes the BONE wouldn't freeze also.  The fix was to remove the bad disk, which I did and copy data, much to their relief.  Find a new drive it in the city for her, and I put it.  This is where the problems started.

  -When I put in the new drive, it came very well, I wrote the signature on the disk and dynamic implemented.
  -RAID - 5 E: replicated on the disc fine, but not the mirror of the c: drive, I could not mirror, so I broke the mirror and deleted the "missing" disk it holds only 4 disks, and all 4 are there.
  -When I try to mirror C: to free space on the new disk, it returns the error: "could not allocate contiguous space or partition." before I can even choose the button change.
  -J' deleted the E: volume, the RAID-5 volume, to get all of the space on the new drive.  Therefore, I have a disk 0, with the OS on it in the first score, a 1 with nothing, put in place a dynamic drive and D: drive which is mirrored on the first partition of the disk 2 & 3.
  -Even once, when I matches of the C: drive, then select Add Mirror, I always get the error: "could not allocate contiguous space or partition.»  Of course, there is a massive amount of space on disk 1 of mirror to.
  -Dell pulled all the docs that people are used to solve this problem.  How can get to reflect the current information on the first partition of drive 0, the system C: drive on the first partition of disk 1?

  Thank you!

  After several reboots, read manuals and posts, try several methods without success, I finally found the problem.  It turns out, I had no chance to get it to work as it was.  The difficulty and the ONLY thing that makes the difference, without exception, has been updated of the BIOS by, 08.  After that EVERYTHING worked EXACTLY as advertised.

• Replacement H200A PERC - inactive volumes RAID - controller okay to activate?

  Hi all, quick question which I * think * I know the answer, but it's a new one on me and all juggling RAID settings in a live environment make me sweat.
  Situation, is that I have a PowerEdge T410 with a PERC H200A controller and two RAID 1 volumes, 600 GB, and 1 TB.  Was a message of "Fatal error 4 Bus Slot" in OpenManage and diagnosis, which points to the H200A, and as a result, the server is not feeding properly in ESXi and one of the volumes is showing that the East in vCenter.  It will not mount.

  Fortunately, I have a spare H200A controller, so I put it in the server and, as expected, is to show the RAID volumes as being inactive.  I'm * assuming that * I can activate just them and they will come to life, but I just wanted to check if somebody do it before and I can confirm that is going to work.

  Thank you

  Tim.

  Yes, you must activate the VD/table. Real PERC, the controller would see a configuration on the discs and you could import the foreign configuration... the terminology on this controller is that he sees a configuration on the disks and you must activate it.

• C260 UCS Raid configuration

  I have a question more specific. I have a UCS C260 filled with 1 TB drives. I have two controllers. In the service/config guide, it is not very clear on how to configure the berries. When you go to automatic configuration on the WEBBIOS configuration screen and use the new configuration, it shows only 8 disks and you must select a contorller.

  What second card selected, it shows only 8 disks as well and they are 0-7 identical to the first drrives card. I suspect that this is normal. I guess my question is what someone did this and how did... You set the first card and readers as bootable and I gguess it is the table that install you VMWARE on.

  Usually in the 210 c feet I create two tables. I use 200 GB for Vmware to isolate him on his iwn palette, then the rest of what I build. This is my first 260C that is why confusion... I also see the 260C can come in three configurations different one who has a unique card, one with two cards and I forget the third.

  -This isn't logical.    And any help or advice would be great.

  Thank you

  Mike,

  This might help

  http://www.Cisco.com/en/us/docs/unified_computing/UCS/c/HW/C260/install/RAID.html#wpxref36524 go to table C1

  The C260 has two different styles, berries, 2 independent 8 disk bays or 2 drive bays of 8 discs at front with an expander control. If you have the Expander version, a Raid Controller will have access to all 16 drives.

  Looks like you have independent drives with a controller berries separate Raid will each drive Bay giving that individual access to each 8 HARD disk drive Bay.

  During POST, you see two instances of the WebBIOS of LSI utility that correspond to two Raid controllers installed. Each instance of the utility will allow you to configure each separate drive Bay

  Dave

• Model of card mother T7500 and configuration of the controller RAID LSI 1068e

  Hi, I just bought a T7500 workstation I would get around mid-December. Because of current prices for HARD drive storage, I decided to go with the 500 GB basic disk up to HEALING of Thailand. Thus, I am limited to basic integrated RAID controller. Because I am not familiar with the RAID configuration, etc. I wanted to read more before I dive in. The starting point would definitely find what was right for the Precision T7500 motherboard. Surprise! I can't find information anywhere. Even Dell people (3 different sales and support representatives) have not managed to tell me it's the Intel 5520 chipset (it looks that they believe that it is the motherboard model...). Well, I'm stuck. I would appreciate if someone could provide me with the model of motherboard and Special Edition, all information on the capabilities of the controller integrated RAID (LSI 1068e) would help me determine what drives should I plan to buy. In addition, one thing that is not clear to me what I inferred from the configuration on the website Wizard is the issue around disks > 2 TB. Of after I read it, I was not able to determine whether the problem was related to the simple readers > 2 TB or if it was related to the management of a storage space > 2 TB (which could be composed of several readers less than 2 TB). What I have in mind (remember that I do not have the machine right now) is to 4 X 1 TB drives in a RAID 0 + 1 (which I'm not sure that the integrated controller supports) configuration that will result in the storage of 2 GB mirrored. The operating system is Win 7 64 bit. Thanks in advance for any info that will help me to prepare my setup (buy hard drives, if I can find cheap ones) and find information on the configuration of the RAID. MrBricole

  I'm sure the T7500 uses an Intel Server Board (since this chipset is located on the Intel site under its motherboards, Dell is essentially correct, even if they didn't know why), but it doesn't matter in the context of your question, because the '' integrated '' RAID controller is not actually on the Board.  It's a card (called "integrated" only because it has a slot on this machine).  Because the functionality of the RAID controller is not on the Board of Directors, Board info will not help you.  Everything you need to know about your Council and the entire system, you can get the T7500 manual.  SAS 6/iR (LSI 1068e) RAID controller information can be found here:

  NOTE from the ADMIN: Broken link has been removed from this post by Dell >

  The SAS 6/iR will not support more than 2 TB of drives, or it will support more than 2 TB of virtual disks.

  It will also only supports RAID 0 OR RAID 1 OR both, but not together (not levels no RAID nested as RAID 10 or 0 + 1).

  So with four 1 TB drives, you can easily do two RAID 1 (called integrated mirror in the controller BIOS CTRL-C)... or you can do two 2-drive RAID 0 (Stripe called integrated in the controller BIOS CTRL-C)... or you can run mode non-RAID, with four individual discs in the operating system.  With this controller, those are your only options with four 1 TB drives.

  If you want / need more features RAID (nested RAID, 2 TB of the VFD above, on board levels, cache, etc.), you must upgrade to the PERC 6 / i.

  Do not buy office records class... Make sure you get enterprise-class drives.  If you decide at some point to go with PERC, not only enterprise class disks will be fundamentally necessary, but certified records would be strongly recommended for stability and performance.

• Supermicro onboard Intel and Adaptec RAID configuration unrecognized in ESXi 5.5 U2

  Hi, I have a supermicro X7DAL-E r1.1b motherboard has integrated Intel and Adaptec sata raid controllers. To enable raid controllers, I go into the BIOS and enable the raid configuration for intel or adaptec. I tried two raid controllers and created a configuration raid 5 by going through the bios of each controller. However, when I start to go through the process of installing ESXi 5.5 U2, I see not a logical drive, all I see are hard drives that I thought were configured as a logical drive in raid 5.

  I know that I am using an old motherboard which is not on the HCL, but I just haven't the money to spend on equipment. I really want to make it work if possible. I tried to download ESXi 4 but it is no longer available . I understand I tried to use an older version to see if it contains the necessary drivers for it work and attempt to port these drivers in ESXI 5.5.

  I was wondering if someone actually got this similar problem with supermicro Board and whether a solution or workaround has been found in which ESXi 5 can recognize the raid configuration? If this is impossible, it can't be done, that's what it is. I'll deal with it or put in place.

  Any suggestion would be appreciated.

  Not sure about this 'r1.1b' version, but original X7DAL-E has no onboard hardware raid controller. What he has is i5000 chipset, which offers the raid software-(aka bios-, faux-, etc.). This is not supported by ESXi (for very good reasons). And even if it were, no cache, you would get terrible performance...

• Adding a RAID card to help speed up the export (and another question reader) in first Pro CC

  First of all, I read the Page Tweakers export section because that is my main concern is. First my questions, then the background and my current and proposed configurations:

  Question 1: Adding a hardware RAID controller, for example an LSI MegaRAID will sufficiently remove the burden of parity management CPU on my RAID 5 software that the CPU will jump of joy and export faster?

  Question 2: If true for above, then compare thoughts on adding smaller SSD for either a RAID 0 or less two RAID 0 volume volume complete HDD RAID 5. In other words, I think the purchase of four Samsung 850 Pro 128 GB SSD to put in a four disk volume to handle everything (projects/media, media, previews, export cache), or split it into two volumes of two disks of each and divide the tasks, or keep the idea of volume four disc and previews and exports on my drive HARD RAID 5 array.

  The 850 are valued at SEQ write: 550 / 470 MB/s so I could get around 2000 / 1500 MB/s read/write to a disk four RAID 0 or 1/2 who, if I divided in two volumes to minimize the volume of read/write at the same time, if it really matters with these SSD?

  The Tweaker page made some comments. A split is carried out the tasks between different drives, rather than a large effective RAID can really slow things down. Because SSDS are much faster than a single HARD disk, I think its more accurate than so I'm leaning towards the configuration of four discs put OS & programs on the C drive, media & projects on media on SSD (2 disks RAID 0) Cache and D (HDD RAID 5), file exchange & Previews & export on 2nd SSD RAID 0 (or combine the two RAID 0 and their functions).

  Just trying to get a point of view here, since I have not bought anything yet. Any experience/stories, I would be grateful.

  My current setup of training:

  My D drive is a software RAID 5 consisting of four 1 TB Western Digital RE4 (RED) 7200 RPM hard drives with CrystalDiskMark SEQ read/write of 339 / 252 MB/s.

  The C drive is 500 GB SSD (Samsung 840 (not Pro) and fact 531 / 330 MB/s.) My OS, Program Files and Page file are on C and media data/files/projects, etc. that are all about the RAID drive.

  Problem:

  Current configuration allows for smooth installation, just export seems slow, usually taking between two and two and a half times the video length to export. Thus, a 10 minute video takes 20-30 minutes for export. 15 minute video can take 30-40 minutes to export. The first 10% of the export of re-encoding takes less than a minute (seems fast), but it becomes slower when the final 10 or 20 percent may hang for several minutes as my system is running out of steam. So, where's the waste?

  I activated the hardware acceleration (because the GPU hack my GPU is not listed) and it can break through to 25% use a few times and eat up to 600 MB of VRAM (I have 2 GB of VRAM), otherwise it is slowed down export set. The CPU can boost at 50%, but it seems either too busy.

  Our calendar is simple with two video and two audio streams (a little music and especially the voices), with simple transitions (jump cuts or cross dissolves). Sometimes, we fast correct color, so that could use the GPU? Also, given that we are filming in 1080 P 60 p and 1080 export 29.97 FPS, I think who is scaling and using the GPU. I know that without the GPU, it takes much longer. I excluded buy a faster GPU because it doesn't seem to be breaking a sweat. I just need to know if my system is a bottleneck at the level of the disk hard because I am using software RAID and my disks are slow and hardware RAID will considerably reduce the processor load so it can export more quickly.

  Our files are not huge in nature. Most of our clips are several MBs each. Total files in the project are between 5 GB and 10 GB for each video with Windows Media File export being 500 MB to 1.2 GB on average. Look using Panasonic Camcorders, so the original files are AVCHD, I think (.) MTS files?).

  Considerations:

  1. I think to buy (and future proofing) a LSI Logic MegaRAID 9361-8i is 12 Gb/s SAS and SATA (because some SSD current can exceed the standard 6 Gbps).

  2. I will not replace my current HDD RAID 5 as not in my budget to spend 6 or more large SSD. These discs are more important to me for temporary storage because I delete files saved once. I don't mind a few smaller SSD inexpensive if they can make a significant difference for editing and export.

  I can only guess my RAID HDD is slow but the CPU is burdened by parity. I guess running RAID 10 would not really help.

  My configuration:

  my configuration:

  CPU - CPU i7 - 3930K @4.5 GHz

  RAM - G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR3 2133 @2000

  Motherboard - ASUS P9X79 WS LGA 2011

  GPU - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 OC 2 GB (performed the hack of compatibility list to activate hardware acceleration).

  Drive C - 500 GB Samsung SSD (programs and Windows 7 Pro 64-bit) 840.

  D drive - four 1 TB WD RE4 enterprise hard drives 7200 rpm in RAID 5 software

  Box - Cooler Master HAF X

  CPU fan - Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO with 120 mm fan

  Power - series Pro Corsair AX 850 watts 80 Plus Gold

  Optical drive - Pioneer BDR - 208DBK

  Thanks in advance,

  Eric

  OK, after overload of information on everything I tried (free), which might be my answer here. I went from codecs to export. When you use Windows Media File, Premiere Pro seems chugging along much slower than when you use the h.264 (not h.264 Blu - Ray). I don't know if it's because Microsoft has found a way to break it or what. But I'm the CPU usage of 70-85% on the 2 Pass of 2 as well as the use of the memory of 40% (or 12 GB). It exported in 14 minutes. Woo - hoo. I then did a similar test using Windows Media File. It took 31 minutes to export. The CPU has spent much of his time in the 30%, especially down in the 1930s mid-1940s with spike for memory usage was only 24% to 35% and 50%. Since then, I've read how h.264 codec is 'plu' for online files. It compresses better with less compression artifacts. He seems better, etc. Well, they both seemed on the same thing for me. I play both on my TV 70 "before I could comment further. In the future, I will consider a RAID controller and upgrade the HDDs to SSDS.

• SQL, VM Ware & RAID

  Hi all

  I'm going to virtualize one of my SQL servers, the storage device that both hosts use (in a cluster) is RAID 50 (package of 16 disks on a Dell Equalogic)

  Better configure me the volumes to use RAID 10, RAID1 etc. of will I simply create two RAID 50 volumes, one for data and one for newspapers?

  Cheer

  Unfortunately there is no clear answer for this

  All depends on the needs of e/s for theses SQL, Performance vs vs capacity redundancy servers

  I can add my 2 Cents, however

  Lets look at the options

  Option 1:

  If you use RAID 5 on 15 discs and keep 1 spare you total useful capacity of 10 discs

  This configuration may be more than sufficient for the application of SQL server IO

  Option 2:

  If you use 9 disks in RAID 50 1 hot spare and 6 disks in RAID 10 configuration.

  This will give you a total of 9 discs (6 of RAID 50) and RAID 10 3

  This will also give you better performance on your newspapers and good redundancy

  If I had to choose between these 2 Options I would option 2

  Capacity: Lose 1 single disc than option 1

  Performance: The best possible execution as DB on newspapers on RAID 10 and RAID 50

  Redundancy: Redundancy is good - I would keep a player 17th as a cold spare just in case

  Hope this helps and please assign points if it is correct

• Undetected RAID array

  I use a HP DL180 G5 equipped of an E200 HP controller.

  I built two RAID arrays using the E200 controller

  1 65 GB hard drive

  4 HDDs of 750 GB in RAID 5

  I was able to successfully install ESXi 4.1 and everything seems to work without problems.  Except that I am unable to see the matrix RAID 2 to.  I am able to see the 1 65 GB drive, because that's where ESXi is installed.  But I can't seem to find the matrix RAID 2 to anywhere.

  I tried to do a new analysis of all storage cards, but it is not always see it.  I tried to rebuild RAID 5, but it is not always see it.

  When you run fdisk-l on the tech support console it does not show the RAID 5 array anywhere. I also ran lspci and it does not detect the Smart Array E200 mass storage, but it does not detect the RAID array.  DF not to see no more.

  I don't know where to go from here.

  What are the troubleshooting steps I can go through to find the missing RAID array?  I'm assuming that they will have to be performed from the CLI.

  I have not tried to install 4 independent labels still to see if we can see them or not.  I'm sure that the disks are always good as I was running this server as a target iSCSI using Solaris 10 until a few weeks before.

  Welcome to the community,

  ESX has a limitation for the disk/LUN 2 TB sizes less than 512 bytes. Assuming that you are running the latest firmware on the E200 and the upgrade of cache installed (required for RAID5) I recommend you remove the 65GB disk and create a RAID5 with 4 x 750GB disks. Since the RAID 5 create 3 logical volumes, for ESXi and 2 x 10 GB ~ 1 TB for VMFS data storage. You need to do this, use the ACU on the SmartStart CD utility.

  See http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00688683/c00688683.pdf for more details E200

  André

• How can I partition logical volume from 5.5 TB Raid on a ML350 G6 server for ESX data warehouse creation

  Today, we received a new ML350 G6 server. It has 8 hard disks of size 1 TB each.i have created a volume unique raid 6 and raid is 5.5 TB usable for the logical unit space. The server starts with a picture of ESXi 3.5 on a USB key provided by HP with the server. When I login and checking configuration& gt; stroage adapters& gt; pi400 Smart array for physical disk controller, I couldn't see any disk. I know that ESX will not support the volume size more than 2 C.T.

  I don't want to create a raid volume children (example two raid 6 volumes with 4 hard drives), because it will reduce the amount of disk space, I can use.

  Is it possible to create 3 partitions on this volume 5.5 TB raid with the configs below?. All the tools that everyone knows that I can use to create partitions? I tried GPARTED, but it doesn't work

  LUN 0-2 TO

  1-2 TO LUN

  LUN 2-1, 5 TB

  You cannot have a drive that is larger than 2 TB.

  Create multiple logical disks, not different partitions.

  André

• Difficulty installing ESXi with RAID and Ethernet

  I have a Promise FastTrak TX2300 RAID controller PCI card and a PCI Netgear 1 GB ethernet card. The RAID controller is configured with RAID 1 and has two identical disks connected. A logical drive is defined.

  When I run the VMware ESX Server 3i 3.5.0 installer displays the two RAID drives as if there was no RAID. If I select one of the disks and continue with the installation, the installation program uses only this player and the second drive is intact.

  Once installation is complete, the system will start and allow me to configure the ESX Server.

  The configuration of the server sees any Netgear card.

  How do we install ESXi to recognize the logical RAID drive both the Netgear ethernet adapter? The only Setup installation option that I could see was to press TAB before the loading of the installer. But that just showed two lines of giberish and I press any takes over the responsibility of the installer.

  Kevin

  (1) the promise is a "soft" raid card, which means linux and windows, that the pilot made the raid, ESX, so on, it will work, but each drive is independent.  There is no choice in addition to using a fully supported RAID card.

  (2) netgear probably isn't on the HCL, and therefore will not work.  Buy a card in the HCL...

  -Matt