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September 24th, 2009 16:00
Connecting SATA Drivers Directly to PERC 6/i Integrated?
I'm looking at buying a Poweredge T300 along with a seperate PERC 6/i integrated RAID controller:
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Controllers/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=341-6209
It lists the ports as:
"2 x 4 Internal Wide Port"
All the documentation talks about SAS or SATA drives, but I don't see any indication if I can plug my SATA drives directly into this, or if I have to get some backblane that plugs into the "internal wide port."
Does anyone know?
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grm139
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September 25th, 2009 13:00
The PERC 6/i Integrated card is not integrated on the motherboard, it is an independent stand alone card, as show on the link in the 1st post.
The T300 server does not have a back place, the HDD are connected directly to the PERC 6 controller via cables. The server has space for 4 drives and they can be SAS or SATA.
Siget
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September 25th, 2009 13:00
well there should already be a backplane on the system and that card will see both SAS and SATA, and with the PERC 6/i intergrated that will be on the motherboard and not a card, So to answer your question ys you can.
~Siget
snkscore
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September 27th, 2009 15:00
Would it be a cable like this?
http://www.allstarshop.com/shop/product.asp?ad=fg&pid=20133
snkscore
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September 27th, 2009 15:00
Are there special cables that are "Internal Wide Port" on one end and SATA on the other that I need to get, or are there SATA ports on the PERC 6/i integrated card?
BTW, am I correct that I will be able to just plug in the PERC 6/i integrated card onto some port on the MOBO of the T300?
snkscore
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September 30th, 2009 07:00
I spent literally 2 hours on the phone with Dell, between people in sales, parts, and tech support, no one could figure out anything to help me.
No one can say what type cables are needed for this card or even if Dell sells them, whatever they are.
I talked to so many idiots, it's amazing. The one guy asked me what I was calling about. I said a RAID card. He said "A radio card?". No, a RAID card.
"Oh ok. And what are you planning on doing with this RAID card."
"What do you mean?"
"What function does a RAID card serve?"
"I'm going to plug my hard drives into it???"
Amazing.
Dev Mgr
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September 30th, 2009 08:00
I'd suggest to call your salesrep and ask them to engage their technical salesrep. This person should be able to answer technical pre-sales questions (that's their job).
As for the connector type, I believe the PERC6i uses 8484 type connectors.
zephxiii
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September 30th, 2009 13:00
Hah, i've been trying to figure out a similar situation with the sas 5/iR and 6/iR cards before I order. I can't tell if it comes with a cable, or I need to buy a cable, or what. There is next to no information about these cards and SATA, not even in the manual, and calling Dell about has proven to be futile.
zephxiii
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September 30th, 2009 17:00
After some digging around, that does seem to be the cable we need to connect SATA drives to these controllers....assuming that the connector on the controller is 8484 which seems logical.
EDIT: I used this cable and it worked fine (SAS-8484 to 4x SATA fanout cable):
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Cables/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&cs=04&sku=A1605905