cosmoneer Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Hi All, I currently have Unraid 6.6.6 running on a Dell R310 w/ H200 controller running in IT mode connected to four 4TB SATA drives and 16GB of RAM. This gives me 6gb/s to the drives, but takes up a PCIe slot. The other PCIe slot is being used for additional network ports to support running pfSense. I am in the process of configuring the pfSense VM and have the ports mapped. What I wanted to do was add a PCIe fiber channel card and pass the ports to a Windows Server VM and run backup software for a DELL 132T LTO-3 tape library. To do this in the R310 I would need to downgrade to a modular PERC 6i/R controller (3gb/s) and flash it to IT mode so I can communicate with the 4TB drives. Going to the modular board frees up the PCIe slot for the fiber card. By doing this, I can run backups from the NAS system and avoid having a separate dedicated system for performing backups. Thoughts? Quote Link to comment
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