No, no I wasn’t. I spent all the time I could spare the last week and a half or so trying to flash my raid controller to IT mode. Why? The Dell PERC (PowerEdge Raid Controller) H200 I purchased is an affordable RAID card that will work with the hard drives I have in my harddrive/connected to my backplane, with one caveat: its default firmware is “too smart”. It does what it sets out to do very well, but all I need out of it is a 6+drive host bus adapter my backplane can talk to the rest of my machine. The H200 stock firmware is, for most applications, great. It allows RAID 1, 5, and 10 drive configurations, each of which allow different levels of redundancy and data parity across connected drives. I, however, am not interested in any real drive parity right now, especially because RAID is not a backup solution. I’ll be storing a few movies and some kinda-disposable virtual hard drives on these drives; everything that I can’t lose is backed up elsewhere.
The Pursuit of Homelabs, Part 5 – IT LIVES!
