Re: LSI MegaRaid SAS 9240-4i prevents vSphere from booting

I don't have a SSD for caching nor a do I have a battery pack installed. I use the raid infrastructure mainly to store, secure and stream media over my network, some documents a stored on there too. So it is more NAS-like thing for consumers than a databank or document storage for a company server. That means there is no point in caching information, because cached information is only useful if there are many requests for the same chunk of data in a short time. Music, HD-Video streams and documents do not match that criteria. Of course it would boost write operations too, but since my system is protected against power-outage through a UPS-Battery I can employ the OS of the server to handle write cache via RAM. I prefer to spend that money on other things, since the 9270 was quite expensive and I wasn't yet able to sell the 9240 card because my studies eat all the leisure time I used to have