Last time around, the LSI SAS/SATA card totally died, so I got a “new” one off of ebay, and today it arrived from Germany.
It’s a fancier model than the last one — it has battery backed memory and everything (which means absolutely zilch, since there’s no UPS for the actual disks).
So I plugged it in, and…
… it stayed like this for five minutes. “Serious” disk hardware is so nerve-wracking! Every reboot takes like ten minutes.
But then it came up, and I entered the configuration thingie, and to my surprise, it was able to fetch the conf from the disks and just work like *snap*.
I know, I shouldn’t have been surprised, but when it comes to RAID hardware, I always assume the worst.
And:
Everything just works. Huh!
I’m amazed!
Thank you, LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2108 [Liberator] (rev 05).
(Huh? What do you mean? Why do I need a RAID system that big? Because I rip blurays I buy so I can watch them more conveniently later. You know it makes sense.)