I'm building a data system for an aircraft mounted instrument that will basically dump a stream from a highspeed IP camera to disk. We are looking at using a 2u rack mount server capable of holding 6 disks: 2 would be dedicated to main and redundant system disks and the other 4 for data.
The plan is to use 2 data disks in RAID1 or 4 disks in a mirrored JBOD if we need the space. We want to take a big box of prebuilt arrays with us, and just swap out sets of disks (with the power off) so we don't have to mess with transferring data off the computer.
We have been doing this successfully with an external firewire RAID, but all of the servers I've tried it on that have an internal RAID card balk at the new set of disks and require me to reconfigure the RAID in the bios even though the 2 disks are still paired.
I've had good experiences with HP servers in the past, so I would like to stick with them, but before we go out and buy a machine, i need to know that I can get the RAID to work like this. Does anyone have any experience doing this or know if it's supported by a particular model?
for what it's worth, the system will be running a flavor of windows (the camera capture software is windows only).
The plan is to use 2 data disks in RAID1 or 4 disks in a mirrored JBOD if we need the space. We want to take a big box of prebuilt arrays with us, and just swap out sets of disks (with the power off) so we don't have to mess with transferring data off the computer.
We have been doing this successfully with an external firewire RAID, but all of the servers I've tried it on that have an internal RAID card balk at the new set of disks and require me to reconfigure the RAID in the bios even though the 2 disks are still paired.
I've had good experiences with HP servers in the past, so I would like to stick with them, but before we go out and buy a machine, i need to know that I can get the RAID to work like this. Does anyone have any experience doing this or know if it's supported by a particular model?
for what it's worth, the system will be running a flavor of windows (the camera capture software is windows only).