It should work for you to connect your HP san to an PERC H810, but Dell hasn’t tested that configuration before so we don’t know who well it may work or won’t work & we also don’t know if doing that configuration will have data loss.
Please let us know if you have any other questions.
Hi Sam! Well, I'll give it a shot -- I'll try out all the different things above with a pair of the MSA70 SAS Expanders, then post my findings here in the event some future user might find it helpful.
First Note: The first thing anyone who is planning on using this kind of setup should think about is that the HP MSA70, while definitely -very- cost-effective at this point in time (currently $199 on eBay with everything -- including 2 hot-swap power supplies, 2 SAS controllers, 2 hot-swap fans, rack rails and 25 drive trays), is only 3G. It -supports- 6G SAS and SATA drives but it will only drive them at 3G. So if you have an H800 card a lot of 2.5" 3G drives laying around to repurpose, it's great. Similarly, if you just need storage, and it doesn't have to be super fast, it's great. But, on the other hand, if you have 6G SSDs (like ADATA SX900s or better -- or fast 6G drives of any kind), in order to take full advantage of each 6G SSD's far faster (550+ MBps) Read and Write speeds, you'll need to use -- at the very least -- a modern 6G SAS Expander, like the HP MSA 2000 G3 or one of the new Dell PowerVault M3s. Better yet, if you are considering all 6G SSDs, or the new, upcoming 12G SAS SSDs in the array, use 8G Fibre-Channel (as supported on the PowerVault MD3600F) or 40G Infiniband, if available.
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Hello Wentil,
It should work for you to connect your HP san to an PERC H810, but Dell hasn’t tested that configuration before so we don’t know who well it may work or won’t work & we also don’t know if doing that configuration will have data loss.
Please let us know if you have any other questions.
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Hi Sam! Well, I'll give it a shot -- I'll try out all the different things above with a pair of the MSA70 SAS Expanders, then post my findings here in the event some future user might find it helpful.
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April 2nd, 2014 18:00
First Note: The first thing anyone who is planning on using this kind of setup should think about is that the HP MSA70, while definitely -very- cost-effective at this point in time (currently $199 on eBay with everything -- including 2 hot-swap power supplies, 2 SAS controllers, 2 hot-swap fans, rack rails and 25 drive trays), is only 3G. It -supports- 6G SAS and SATA drives but it will only drive them at 3G. So if you have an H800 card a lot of 2.5" 3G drives laying around to repurpose, it's great. Similarly, if you just need storage, and it doesn't have to be super fast, it's great. But, on the other hand, if you have 6G SSDs (like ADATA SX900s or better -- or fast 6G drives of any kind), in order to take full advantage of each 6G SSD's far faster (550+ MBps) Read and Write speeds, you'll need to use -- at the very least -- a modern 6G SAS Expander, like the HP MSA 2000 G3 or one of the new Dell PowerVault M3s. Better yet, if you are considering all 6G SSDs, or the new, upcoming 12G SAS SSDs in the array, use 8G Fibre-Channel (as supported on the PowerVault MD3600F) or 40G Infiniband, if available.