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Convert from Spinning drives to SSD on PERC H700 RAID 1
I have a Dell R510 running a PERC H700 Hardware RAID controller, with 2 2.5" 1TB HDs in a RAID 1 configuation for the OS, and 12 3.5" 2TB HDs in a RAID5 config for a data filesystem. I have ...
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RAID10 Performance on newer hardware slower then RAID5 performance on older hardware?
I am currently trying to figure out a performance issue with a new server compared to a old server. Performance should be better but it's not and I'm having trouble figuring out why.
Old server is a ...
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disks for a small esx-host: ssd raid5 or hdd raid10? [duplicate]
I am about to replace an ESXi host that runs some 20 VMs (mostly idling).
Today around only 800Gb is used on an external iscsi-box, raid6 (total 7Tb).
The new server will just simply have internal ...
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Slow Single Thread Performance on Dell R620 and Windows Server 2019
I recently purchased some new to me r620 servers for a cluster. Mostly they will be doing heavy database transactions, but generally they will have Hyper-V vms doing a variety of work. It was during ...
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Dell R610, Perc 6/i SSD SATA drive slow speed
Before buying an SSD for the server I've tried to use SSD from my notebook:
SSD disk (TRANSCEND 2.5" SSD370S 128 gb SATA III MLC TS128GSSD370S) has speed at my notebook 350-400 MB/s.
I installed it ...
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PERC, Caching with SSDs
We have a few servers with PERC H710s, we're moving to SSDs and I wonder, is caching needed given that we're not using spinning disks? Our general setup is as follows
2 X 2TB SSD in RAID 1
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Can PNY Enterprise SSDs work in Dell R710 with Perc H700?
To improve the performance of a Dell R710 running CentOS 7.2 and being used as a MongoDB server, I'd like to add SSDs. The PNY Enterprise SSDs (specifically the 240GB EP7011) seem reasonably priced. ...
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Using Dell PERC H330 RAID controller with not-dell-certified SSDs
We think about replacing our Dell PowerEdge T100 (2009) with a Dell PowerEdge T330 for our small business. Up to 15 clients are using the MSSql Server, some fileshares and printers. The database size ...
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Mix HDD and SSD in same RAID 1 array
I have a Dell Poweredge R410 with Perc H200 controller.
I would like to upgrade my 15k RPM arrays with SSD. Both disks are SAS 6Gbps.
Will it work if I remove 1 of the 2 disks, replace by the SSD, ...
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TRIM Support in PERC H310 Mini
I am running Debian 8 on a Dell PowerEdge R420.
The OS is installed onto a INTEL SSDSC2BA800G3T SSD running the 5DV1DL03 firmware.
The SSD is connected through a PERC - H310 RAID controller (fw 2....
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Detection of consumer SSDs by enterprise disk controller in non-RAID configuration [closed]
We (a client) are considering [insisting on] using consumer grade SSDs (to keep the cost down) in some Dell R710 and HP Proliant D380 G5 servers.
I've looked about and people report the P400 cards ...
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ESXi build with SSD's and storage sharing with HDD
So the plan is to convert 4 boxed servers into all virtual servers with a new server. The 4 servers now don't require much horsepower to do much, so only looking at the Xeon E5-2470 (8C, 2.4ghz, iirc) ...
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DELL 2950 Gen III + PERC 5i + SSDs
I have a Dell 2950 Gen III rack-mounted server sitting around here that I want to upgrade with SSDs. Since I haven't found anything related from Dell and just a few post that confirmed it'll work (and ...
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Trim support in Hardware RAID (Perc H700)
We are about to order a dell R610 with a H700. We were thinking of using 2 X Samsung 850 Pro 512Gb drives in RAID 1.
The question is does the Perc H700 support TRIM in hardware RAID 1? The answers I ...
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Samsung 840 Pro SSDs in a Dell R720
We have a MySQL database server running on an Dell PowerEdge R720 (PERC H710 Mini RAID controller) ( (Ubuntu 12.04).
We're considering upgrading the 2 x 146GB 15k SAS drives to Samsung 840 Pro SSDs.
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Benefit of Dell PERC Card for SSD
I bought a dell workstation for using with mysql and python. It came with a single HD and PERC 310 controller. I then installed the OS on an ssd instead to speed things up. However, there seems to ...
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Expand PERC 6/i RAID 10 SSD array, or add new VD for SQL Server?
On a Dell R710 server running Window Server 2008 R2 there are currently 4 50GB SSDs in a RAID 10 array, and I'm adding 2 additional 50GB SSDs. This server runs SQL Server and not much else. If these ...
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Using X25-E SSD on Dell R710 w/PERC H700
I noticed that StackExchange/ServerFault is using a Dell R710 with PERC H700 controller and Intel X25-E SSDs for a database server. We're trying to do the same thing!
We're currently running the ...
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How to over-provision an Intel SSD RAID Array via the Dell H700 PERC RAID Controller
I would like to set up a RAID10 array of 6 Intel SSD 320 SSDs, but over-provision them to enhance their performance and duration as per this PDF:
http://cache-www.intel.com/cd/00/00/45/95/...
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Does the PERC 5/i Integrated controller support SATA II/III?
I have a refurb 2950 with a PERC 5/i Integrated controller. Currently, there are 4x 3.5" SAS drives in use, with two slots available. I want to add two SSDs (using a 3.5" ICY dock) in RAID1 in the ...
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Crucial C300 256GB SSDs in Dell M605 (or similar) Blade with Perc H700
Does anyone have any experience with 3rd party SSD drives in any of the Dell Blade range?
I'm not prepared to pay dell £1000 for a 100GB SSD drive, when I can pick up 2x 256GB drives for £800!
I've ...
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PERC 5/i and SSD
I have a PowerEdge 2950 with PERC 5/i and 4x 300GB 10K SAS drives in RAID 10. I want to add a secondary RAID 0 virtual disk using 2x SSD in the extra two slots. I know I'll need a 2.5" -> 3.5" adapter ...
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