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April 16th, 2020 10:00
PERC H700 Max Physical Drive Count
I have a non-Dell server that I would like to use a PERC H700 from an old R510 I'm not using anymore. The server has 24 SAS drives on a backplane across two cables. Will this card support 24 drives? If not, will the PERC H800 or any other PERC card support this many drives on a single controller?
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theflash1932
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April 16th, 2020 10:00
Yes, it will support that many drives, provided you have the right hardware in place to make them visible to the controller (expander, etc.). There may be other size or layout/format limitations though ... what disk make/model do you intend to use?
michaelbs
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April 16th, 2020 11:00
The server is a Quanta Stratos S210-X22RQ. It has a LSI HostRAID 2008 card that will not allow me to configure the RAID the way I'd like it to be. I plan to pop off the LSI card and use the H700. The backplane has two connections that would fill both connections on the H700. I'm using Seagate ST1200MM0007 1.2TB 10K SAS drives. They are enterprise grade. My goal is to RAID 10 all drives in one logical volume. It's going to be made a FC target and added to a vCenter server as an additional datastore. It's easier to manage as a single volume.
elly_00
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April 21st, 2020 05:00
The H700 bios may not be visible to your server. Is is specifically designed to work with IDRAC
michaelbs
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April 21st, 2020 07:00
I don't see what the IDRAC has to do with it at all? IDRAC is for out-of-band management of the server. Sure, there are reasons why the server might not recognize the card BIOS, but I wouldn't assume the IDRAC would have anything to do with it.
theflash1932
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April 21st, 2020 08:00
I think what he is getting at is the last generation of the PERC (H740) integrates with the system BIOS/iDRAC, so that the traditional CTRL-R utility to configure it no longer exists but is configured within the [Dell] BIOS (or from the iDRAC). This will not apply to the H700 though.
theflash1932
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April 21st, 2020 08:00
There is another potential issue: The H700 comes in three versions: integrated, modular, and adapter. Modular and integrated have different firmware and are designed to work in a dedicated "storage" slot in the server. If you were buying a card to put into a generic server, you'd likely have more luck with the adapter version that can go in any PCIe slot. I've seen the others work before, but since you are taking it out of an R510, it is mostly likely the integrated version, and if you have issues with it on your generic board, that could be a contributing factor.