Hello

I am going to build a small RAID 6 array for my school.

I was thinking about using the SNT-2131SATA backplane for 3 disk, and
use 2 of them for a total of 6 disks.
Using 500GB disks this would give me 2TB and RAID6 for reliability.

The problem is, on the site, only raid 0 and 1 are supported.

But other vendors just put RAID support on their site, no raid levels.

My idea was that the backplane is just a extension of the sata cable,
how can it interfere with RAID operation?

Any help would be nice

Documentation about the backplane:
http://www.chieftec.eu/images/anlei...NT-2131SATA.pdf

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sixdesign@gmail.com wrote:
> I was thinking about using the SNT-2131SATA backplane for 3 disk, and
> use 2 of them for a total of 6 disks.
> Using 500GB disks this would give me 2TB and RAID6 for reliability.
> The problem is, on the site, only raid 0 and 1 are supported.

The documentation you pointed to clearly shows that it is a passive
backplane and is therefore entirely agnostic to whatever you choose to
do with your disks. If the vendor mentions RAID levels that's wrong.

ESB

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