I have a PowerEdge T630 with PERC H730 controller and a 12Gbs HBA SAS Storage adapter. I'm are looking to add more storage for backup/archiving purposes. I'm looking at using the MD1200 or MD1220 to support that role as opposed to a NAS (due to limited network bandwidth in our environment). If I connect the MD12XX to the T630 will the disks show up in PERC RAID Management screens; allowing me to configure it as another RAID array? Or does the MD1200 need to be configured with its own RAID controller in order to be accessed as a single virtual disk? If the answer is the former, is there a performance benefit for the MD12XX having its own RAID controller?
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