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October 22nd, 2021 10:00
Converting t310 from sata to sas raid
Looking for advice please I have bought a T3 10 which is SATA only so no raid card or back plane or anything else. I would like to use the SAS drives I already have in this server. What should my shopping list be to accomplish this. Is it even possible not sure if the motherboard will not accept raid backplane etc
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DELL-Shine K
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October 22nd, 2021 19:00
I believe you are having a cabled hard drive system. If you need to use PERC controller on this system you need to use a PERC controller and use correct cable for the controller. Both PERC 6 and PERC 7 is supported on T310. Based on PERC controller you are going to order you need to use appropriate cable
Cable for PERC 6
Cable for PERC 7
grahambrown
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October 22nd, 2021 23:00
Thanks my current server has an s300
Do i need :-
S300 or h710
Backplane
Idrac
Backplane
Anything else?
These are terms i have read about but dont know what they actually do
DELL-Shine K
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October 24th, 2021 06:00
H710 is not a supported controller for T310. S300 controller is supported on T310. You can use SAS RAID on T310 without backplane. You need to use below cable to connect T310 drives to S300. These cable will connect drive to the controller without backplane.
grahambrown
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October 24th, 2021 07:00
Thanks. What is a sas card do i need that as well?
I've read idrac is remote config. Do i need one of these?
Where do these cards physically plug in on the motherboard please?
Is there a diagram or video anywhere?
Thank you for helping a newbie.
grahambrown
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October 24th, 2021 11:00
Sorry got that wrong. What i meant was do i need a perc6i and s300. Not sure what these physically look like
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October 24th, 2021 22:00
S300 and PERC 6 are RAID controller supported on the server. Below are the various PERC controller supported on PowerEdge T310.
PERC H200
PERC H700
SAS 6/iR
PERC 6/i
PERC S100 (software based)
PERC S300 (software based)
You can refer below link for more details on T310 technical specification
https://i.dell.com/sites/csdocuments/Shared-Content_data-Sheets_Documents/en/T310-SpecSheet.pdf
All these are PCIe card which will get inserted on PCIe slot of the server. You can refer "Expansion Cards" section on page 114 of below link on PCIe slot supported and how to insert these cards
https://downloads.dell.com/manuals/all-products/esuprt_ser_stor_net/esuprt_poweredge/poweredge-t310_owner%27s%20manual_en-us.pdf
T310 server model come with 2 drive bays. One without backplane (Cabled hard drive) and one with backplane. Connecting backplane on cabled hard drive system is not supported. If your server does not have backplane then you need to connect hard drive directly to the PERC using one of the below cable depend on which controller you have.
Cable for PERC 6
Cable for PERC 7 (H200/H700)