Raid controller question "hardware RAID Array Maximum size: 2.3TB"
I am looking to get a raid controller for my ubuntu server (used as a media server with plex) I am looking to ger this however, I am new to raid, and the sentence "hardware RAID Array Maximum size: 2.3TB"
does this mean it can not take 2.3TB per disk, or it can not take more than 2.3tb in total.
I am looking at using 4 x 2tb disks at RAID 5.
Many thanks!
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The way they have it worded means 2 TiB for the whole array, but this appears to be a SIL fake raid card, which I believe supports arrays larger than that, but only 2 TiB per disk. If you are looking for a real hardware raid, you should look elsewhere ( i.e. more expensive cards ). If you don't need to dual boot with Windows and don't care about the slight performance advantage of true hardware raid, then you could use Linux software raid, which does support larger disks, and can be used with the built in SATA ports on your motherboard.
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