Soldato
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I recently picked up a Xeon based Dell T20 - with cashback it was too cheap to resist.
I'm not 100% sure how I'm going to configure it yet, but I've been thinking about the drives. The one think I do know is I'll be sticking to RAID1/RAID10(01), it's also fairly certain that it'll only have SATA drives installed.
Looking at what I've got kicking around the options appear to be:
I'm not 100% sure how I'm going to configure it yet, but I've been thinking about the drives. The one think I do know is I'll be sticking to RAID1/RAID10(01), it's also fairly certain that it'll only have SATA drives installed.
Looking at what I've got kicking around the options appear to be:
- Using the on board chipset.
- PERC 5/i; I've got several spare with BBUs and cable sets. Obviously now quite old and relatively slow (not that should matter for the RAID levels I'm interested in).
- ServeRaid M5014 (FRU 46C8929). I've got the adapter, but I'd need to buy cables, and if necessary the BBU.
- Something else...