JohnSracic Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 (edited) I have a dell PowerEdge T30 sever. Looking to add additional hard drives on top of the 4 onboard sata connections. Which PCI Express expansion cards would you all recommend? Thanks in advance for your help/suggestions. Edited December 26, 2018 by JohnSracic Quote Link to comment
mrbilky Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 1 hour ago, JohnSracic said: I have a dell PowerEdge T30 sever. Looking to add additional hard drives on top of the 4 onboard sata connections. Which PCI Express expansion cards would you all recommend? Thanks in advance for your help/suggestions. I just put this in my rig it was plug and play no setup required Dell H310 6Gbps SAS HBA w/ LSI 9211-8i P20 IT Mode for ZFS FreeNAS unRAID Quote Link to comment
JohnSracic Posted December 26, 2018 Author Share Posted December 26, 2018 Perfect! Thank you very much. Where would you suggest the best location to purchase this from? Quote Link to comment
Hoopster Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, JohnSracic said: Perfect! Thank you very much. Where would you suggest the best location to purchase this from? I just bought one on eBay (the best place to find genuine server pulls). https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-3P0R3-PERC-H310-PCIe-RAID-Controller/223286565043?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649 This one is not flashed to IT mode, I will do that myself. However, there are plenty of LSI chip-based cards available on eBay. Many are already flashed to IT mode. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-H310-6Gbps-SAS-HBA-w-LSI-9211-8i-P20-IT-Mode-for-ZFS-FreeNAS-unRAID/162834659601?epid=19006955695&hash=item25e9b3b911:g:NjgAAOSwqRlcAIRn:sc:USPSPriorityMailSmallFlatRateBox!84058!US!-1:rk:2:pf:1&frcectupt=true If you get something like an LSI 9211-8i (PCIe 2.0) or LSI 9207-81 (PCIe 3.0) you don't have to worry about flashing those either. https://www.ebay.com/itm/H3-25412-00H-LSI-Logic-SAS-9207-8i-SATA-SAS-6Gb-s-PCIe-3-0-Host-Bus-Adapter/153314087948?hash=item23b23b540c:g:UTAAAOSwxZxcHthS:sc:USPSFirstClass!84058!US!-1:rk:2:pf:1&frcectupt=true Beware of fakes from China. Edited December 26, 2018 by Hoopster Quote Link to comment
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