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PowerEdge430 - BIOS can detect SSD, but OS installer cannot
I have a Samsung SSD 860 EVO 2.5" SATA III 500GB which I'm trying to use as the OS installation drive for a newly-acquired PowerEdge R430 with 8 2.5" drive bays. I've installed the drive in ...
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Dell R630 supported PCIe to NVMe (m.2) adapter and drive?
I can't seem to find any information anywhere about supported PCIe to NVMe (m.2) adapter and a brand of drive that will also work.
I am aware third party adapters and drives tend to work with various ...
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Can we upgrade Dell's basic Server R240 (which still uses HDD 7200RPM) to an SSD?
Today I was shopping for the most basic dell rack server which is the R240.
Ironically, they are still using HDD 7200 RPM, with no option for SSD in their selection; and we're approaching 2020!
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Does Dell PowerEdge R720(xd) support PCIe Bifurcation?
I want to add a bunch of SSDs to my PowerEdge R720xd, and the highest-density way to do that seems to be a card like this Dell Ultra-Speed Drive Quad NVMe M.2 PCIe x16 Card.
However, the specs on ...
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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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Windows Server 2016 installation hangs on new SSD
I hope Server Fault is the right place to ask, move to Super User if that is more appropriate.
I am trying to do what I thought would be a simple upgrade of Windows Server 2012 to 2016 with a new SSD ...
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Dell t430 very loud fan noise with pcie ssd
I have new server Dell t430 2 xenon e5-2640v3 64gb ram, 2x 1TB samsung evo 850 ssd and 2x Intel PCIE p3500 400gb ssd. When I installed Intel PCIe ssd server fan ramp up to 80% and is very loud. I ...
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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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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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Force PCIe SSD to be /dev/sdb on linux install
Is there any options to force the PCIe SSD during install to be not /dev/sda? I was hoping to reserve the SSD to be limited to be only /var but the grub loader fails each time when I try to set the ...
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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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Install a SATA SSD in hot swap server
I am trying to install a SATA SSD into a hot swappable server (Dell PowerEdge T320). The drive is not visible within the Windows 2008 R2.
Server details:
Dell T320 PowedEdge
PERC H710 Raid ...
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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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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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What Kind of adapter can I use for a 2.5" SSD into a Dell PowerEdge R320?
I'd purchased a a caddy like this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BR0L3U8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 assuming I would be able to front load this into the R320, but when I ...
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Windows Server 2012 not starting when PCIe SSD disk installed
I have Dell Power Edge R905 server with Windows 2012 R2 installed. Everything works great until I install Plextor M6e SSD PCIe x2 card. With card inserted into PCIe x4 or PCIe x8 slot, system starts ...
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Slow disk performance on PowerEdge R720
Every few months PowerEdge with SSD (INTEL SSDSA2BW60) comes with results like:
hdparm -tT /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 690 MB in 2.00 seconds = 344.84 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk ...
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Dell H710P, Non-Dell SSDs, and RAID Failures
As long as a non-Dell drive is recognized by the H710P controller, and I'm able to set it up in a RAID, will RAID errors with regard to the non-Dell drives be reported?
I setup a RAID10 (16 x 256GB ...
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SATA SSD in Dell Server
I have a Dell R815 (PDF LINK), which has 6 2.5" bays. I would like to put some Intel X25-E in the spare bays, but have been cautioned that they may not fit since they are SATA and the bays are SAS/...
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Switch SATA disks in DELL PowerEdge R410
I need a 1U rackserver for hosting a website running on Windows Server and MS SQL. I plan to have a SSD drive for the system and SQL database and a large 1-2 TB standard SATA HDD for a lot of ...
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How to update X25-E SSD firmware in PowerEdge 2900 with PERC 5/i
How to update the X25-E SSD firmware in a Dell PowerEdge 2900 with aPERC 5/i RAID controller? In other words, how to make the two SSD's visible to a firmware boot disk as such, when the RAID ...
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Install 2.5" SSD drives into PowerEdge 2950
I have a PowerEdge 2950 (not III) rack-mounted server with a 3.5" SAS backplane. I'd like to put one or two Intel X25-M drives into it for hosting of a few virtual servers on faster disk. Can this be ...
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