This is really a question of best practice.
In a datacentre environment whereby we have a single MD3200 DAS, and for the sake of the question, 6 expansion cages (MD1200s) how would you configure the RAIDS:
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One single RAID per cage – i.e. a RAID10 consisting of all the physical disks in one cage, mapped as a single LUN to your servers/clusters. So essentially, we would end up with 7 RAID 10s. This way losing a cage will not affect your other RAIDs/cages.
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Essentially the same, whereby we end up with 7 RAID10's but the logical disks are actually split across the cages. This way losing a cage may not result in the loss of any data, but could result in the loss of multiple RAIDs.
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You shouldn't daisy-chain the enclosures if you can avoid it
That's also a lot of storage capacity to be planning. Can you give some more detail on what you're doing?
Are you using SAS disks? That's going to be important if you want a resilient cascaded JBOD setup. You'll need the dual-ported disks to make this work well.
See the graphic below. The SAS connections are in a ring topology so that the loss of a chassis can be handled without bring all other JBODs offline.
I suspect the Dell has guidelines on disk group and RAID membership... They are:
So this may be a case where you structure your RAID groups to span enclosures. You have a lot of options, though. And complete JBOD or cable failure is uncommon.