Advised Hardware Raid Controller Card - Vidicode APRESA Installation Manual

10. Advised hardware RAID controller card

There are several brands of RAID controller cards available on the market in a price
range from € 40 to well over €1000. The selection criteria are:
- Reliable, server-grade manufacturer;
- Support of the required RAID configuration;
- Speed of write operation will become increasingly important with the number of
channels to serve by Apresa.
Vidicode advises to use as Hardware RAID controller card:
-Super Micro/LSI AOC S3108L-H8iR 8-port HW Raid card 12Gb/s
+ option : BTR-TFM8G-LSICVM02 (cache & backup)
The cards can be used for both hardware-RAID1 and hardware-RAID10
SOFTWARE RAID5 & HARDWARE RAID5 are DEPRECIATED
Note that early in the setup of the Apresa system, even before base software
installation the user must assign hard drives to a virtual drive to build the RAID
volume, the 'Redundant Array of Independent Drives'.
This is how to setup the RAID-volume for the LSI RAID controller advised earlier:
1. Install/screw the RAID controller card in a free PCI-e x8 slot;
2. Turn on the APRESA server and, during the boot, press CTRL+R when asked
for;
3. Press F2 to enter operations;
4. Go to 'Make un-configurated good' mark drives 'X' to turn drives un-
configurated;
5. Select 'LSI MegaRAID' and press F2 to enter 'operations';
6. Select RAID1 or RAID10, create virtual drive;
7. When asked for initialization, just skip that;
8. Done.
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