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October 28th, 2009 11:00
Intel X25-E / X25-M on a Poweredge T710
We have a Poweredge T710 with the PERC6/i raid controller with 6x 300GB SAS disks and would like to add an SSD drive or two for university research benchmarking purposes only.
1. Has anyone used an Intel X25-E or X25-M in a Poweredge T710/R710/T610/R610 successfully? I intend to order a Dell 80GB SATA drive for the mount + interposer.
2. The T710 documentation states that mixed SAS / SATA drives are only supported for 2x SAS drives and all others SATA -- is this true even when using a Dell interposer on the SATA drives? The SATA drives would belong to a separate raid group. Restated, will I have to remove the other 4x 300GB drives when the SSD SATA drive is installed?
3. If all else fails, can I install the SSD SATA drive in the second optical drive bay?
Thanks.
Jeff
HectorG
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November 15th, 2009 20:00
I have an x25-M(G2) manufactured Oct 1st connected and running my T710.
What do you want me to test for you?
I can say that TRIM and PERC 6i are not yet working together.
I can also say that the PERC 6i SATA 1.5 Gbit/s does not provide sufficient throughput for these drives.
The PERC 6i should provide SATAII support per drive.
HectorG
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November 15th, 2009 22:00
Yes you can play with the SSD in the 2nd optical drive bay.
Make sure you change your boot order by hitting F11, and then selecting the device to boot from.
HectorG
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November 15th, 2009 22:00
Bad read speeds bad burst speeds on the Intel SSD with Perc 6i and T710.
wlazara
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February 27th, 2012 13:00
Yes but unfortunately Dell, for reasons unclear, has the motherboard SATA boards fixed in ATA mode; since you can't use AHCI you get no NCQ or TRIM and performance suffers. The only server I've seen where you can run AHCI on the mobo is the PE R210. I am hoping they do not do this on the 12G servers because the motherboard sata ports are the best way to run a single SSD.