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RAID Card For Precision 7920
I've got a Precision 7920 that I purchased about a year ago, and I'd like to add a RAID volume for storage on it. I'm currently using a PCI-e SSD as my boot drive, and I would like to use some SATA Samsung 860 Pro drives in the 4 front hot swap bays for the RAID volume.
Is there a recommendation on what RAID card would be best to use?
Thanks,
Rob
bmcowboy
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January 19th, 2019 23:00
Hi @robkbriggs,
Check out this post:
Upgrading Storage in the Dell Precision 5820 | 7820 | 7920 Tower Workstations
It mentioned MegaRAID 9440-8i and MegaRAID 9460-16i throughout the post. May have a look on it.
robkbriggs
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January 21st, 2019 09:00
Thank you, I ended up purchasing a MegaRAID 9460-16i
bmcowboy
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January 21st, 2019 15:00
@robkbriggs Not at all. I'm looking for a raid card for my T5600 as well ^^
Subha7920
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May 23rd, 2020 12:00
Does the hard drive progress indicator which is below the power button is it blinking?. I have installed and everything works except for the HD progress indicator.
jimbrandt2000
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January 4th, 2021 10:00
Hi:
How did you connect the card to the system: IE what cables and ports? I see PCIE HD "square" ports not being used on the back next to the drives.
I have 8 drives up already on native Intel controller.
Did you disable the Intel controller to get this to work?
Mine is coming in a week and I need to order cables and connect it up.
precision tower 7920
Jim