#DELL PERC H200 VS H700 INSTALL#
#DELL PERC H200 VS H700 SOFTWARE#

While certainly not the greatest of SSDs, they're very affordable, and offer me enough space for the main OS And the few VMs I plan on running on here. I replaced these with two Kingston A400 480GB SSDs. The drives that came with my R510 were two Seagate Savvio 10k SAS drives 146GB drives. The 12-bay version of the R510 comes with space for two internal 2.5' drives. One of the H200s -with its PCI bracket removed- installed in the 'storage' PCI slot.ДЇor the second card I used a Mini-SAS to 4x SATA cable, with the cables going around and through the same area as where the other SAS cables come through, and connect directly to the two boot drives.

#DELL PERC H200 VS H700 INSTALL#

So long as you install the H200 in the storage slot, the cables will be long enough. The H200 in the storage slot is hooked up to the SAS backplane using the same cables as the H700 was. Out with the old, in with the 'new.' InstallationДЄfter flashing the firmware (something I will try to cover in a separate post, as information on this can be a bit hard to find in complete and usable form) of both cards, I installed one in the R510's 'storage' PCI slot, and the other in one of the normal PCI slots. Once the firmware is flashed, this will work perfectly. You can remove this bracket with two screws and it will fit in the storage slot no problem. More often than not is the H200 you can find of the variety that comes with a PCI bracket. There's probably more benefits (and downsides) to using an H200 which other, more knowledgeable people have already described in detail, so let's skip ahead to me actually installing two of them, and why I went with two. Your system (as-well as tools like smartmontools) will also be able to read and react to SMART status changes, as supposed to how normally your RAID card would be doing that (or you, through the RAID).

#DELL PERC H200 VS H700 SOFTWARE#

The benefit of this over a hardware raid solution is that you can instead rely on a software solution, such as ZFS.

This is part one of my homelab re-organization project. This particular card is popular because it can be found relatively affordably, and it can be flashed to so-called IT mode, which means the card passes all connected hard drives directly through to the host. Ever since acquiring the Dell R510 -which came with a PERC H700- it was my intention to replace it with an often-recommended H200.

Dell perc h200 vs h700