Still contemplating the H700 for that reason alone (enabling the cache). The H200 does not even have cache enabled, and from what I've read that causes a significant performance hit. Performance-wise for us I think it'll be a wash if I stick with the H200. Still torn between the plain and Pro drives. vhd files - both for the boot drive and data drives. And it should have no bearing on booting the SBS 2012 virtual machine installed on that RAID either. Does the interface matter?Īlso, from what I can tell, even though the physical server is booting in legacy mode and the physical SSD drive that Server 2008 is installed on is formatted MBR, that should have no bearing on creating a RAID on the H200 using 4TB drives formatted GPT. That article has a blanket statement about larger than 2TB being supported on the H200, but makes no distinction between SATA and SAS. On either H200 or H700 controller, will I even notice a performance difference between the faster and slower spinning drives? Price difference between brands is negligible, but between plain and pro is less negligible. The Pro versions are 5 year warranty 7200RPM drives.
The plain versions are 3 year warranty, 5400-5900RPM drives. The general consensus seems to be WD over IronWolf. Third question, deciding between the plain and Pro drives. Second question, if I have to upgrade to an H700 controller, does it matter which one I get (CNXVV Does anyone know for sure one way or the other with larger SATA drives? Here are my three questions:įirst and foremost, I know the H200 controller can handle larger than 2TB SAS drives, but I have not been able to find anywhere hard documentation or first hand experience whether larger than 2TB SATA drives will work. WD Red, IronWolf Pro, or WD Red Pro SATA drives. My plan is to use the 4 empty bays and build a new 4x 4TB RAID10 while leaving the virtual machine up and running. I want to increase the RAID size so it will last until my boss retires. There are only 10 employees so even in the middle of the day the file serving load is pretty low. Said virtual machine is only used for file serving and occasional remote access to the desktops for working from home. The current setup is a RAID10 w/ 4x 2TB SATA drives containing the vhd files for a SBS 2012 R2 Essentials virtual machine. At the moment, I'm looking for some information and clarification on increasing the RAID size. I'm working through a long checklist of items that need be addressed.
I have a Dell PowerEdge T610 with a PERC H200i RAID controller at my work that I inherited managing (as detailed in previous long and detailed post).
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