Thanks for the support, in the end I opened the server removed the raid smart array controller and connected the drives directly to main board. Checked within the BIOS and I see them perfectly.
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HBA is not real pass-through of drives, it creates a raid 0 for each one, striping them. If the controller fails, you can’t read anything.
Got it, thanks! Yes for my personal use I rather not rely on HP hardware at all and disable the whole raid thing entirely.
Okay after a some search looks like I have 3 options:
I think i will go with the last one.
I read online that the controller failure is a thing and not that uncommon. I really don’t want to rely on HP hardware tbh.
Well fuck me now I’m scared. So, for him the problem is hardware raid?
Mmm I personally rather avoid closed source software if I can. Afaik unraid is a whole os system that does all the work, so I also rather have different tools that do well their job than 1-in-all system. Decentralisation is always king. Plus I’m okay with not having a real time redundancy but just an easy snapshot system with Snapraid.
Every disk will be in a single array raid 0 with just itself. In other words, every array is just 1 disk in raid 0 (this because HPE doesn't have a no-raid option).
This is what I read on hp forums, for safety I removed the controller entirely. The less HP stuff I use the better.