RAID Card For Precision 7920

Question

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 · Accepted Answer

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 · Answer

Thank you, I ended up purchasing a MegaRAID 9460-16i

bmcowboy · Answer

@robkbriggs Not at all. I'm looking for a raid card for my T5600 as well ^^

Subha7920 · Answer

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 · Answer

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

bseklecki_ge · Answer

On the 7920, yours in the Tower, not Rack?  Does it have 'FlexBay' modules that allow PCIe hot swap via Trays/Caddys?

Precision Fixed Workstations

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