Do 7.2k SATA drives and a hardware raid controller always end with trouble?
- by xelco52
I'm reading the FreeNAS userguide and came across the statement:
Note that hardware RAID configured as JBOD may still detach disks that
do not respond in time; and as such may require TLER/CCTL/ERC-enabled
disks to prevent drive dropouts.
I'm using a '3Ware 9550SX-8LP RAID Controller' and see quite a few stories of people successfully running raid5 on 7.2k consumer SATA drives without issue.
Are detached disks only a theoretical problem, or should I expect this to be a common occurrence?