I picked up a Dell H200 from a server pull. Seller said he tested it, but to what extent, who knows. It was also handled by a family member and shipped to me, so hopefully it survived the trip. 

 

I've been rocking old highpoint and older controllers that were plug and play, so I'm new to the whole crossflashing thing, but reading up quickly.

 

Before entrusting half of my data to this card, I'd like to put it through its paces and make sure it has the right firmware first. What is your process? 

 

Thanks!

Edited January 13, 20188 yr by TyantA

I just ordered a dell h310. and will be in the same boat, great question. I would like to see what people say too.

    I how ever was just going to run a preclear on a drive, once through each port and if no issues, from there consider it good and working. 

Yeah that or set up a spare system around it, copy of bunch of data w/ a parity drive, build the array then check parity at least once. 

 

Either approach is quite the time commitment... but it's important data, so it's worth it.

I'm surprised no one has any input on this. I guess everyone just tosses them into their servers and hopes for the best? I got mine to flash to P20 yesterday. Did a few pre-clears with a spare 200GB drive... not sure what else to try. Now I'm trying to decide which of my drives to entrust to the thing. My motherboard (P9X79) only has 2x 6Gbps ports, the remaining 4 are 3Gbps whereas all 8 here are 6gbps. From a performance standpoint, in theory, I shouldn't be shying away from hooking up say my parity and other more performance oriented (system backups) drives to it. I'm just leery.  

 

Edit: Well, for what it's worth - I tossed my card in and it's working. I have rebuilt data on new drive and done parity checks; it all checks out. That's all I could hope for.

Edited January 20, 20188 yr by TyantA