Hi All, I'd like to report a successful upgrade for my PE T410 that now runs a H730P as its main HBA (connected to the hot-swap backplane).
The reason behind that upgrade was: 1) free the 9271-8i so I could re-use it in another system. 2) benefit from the much larger heatsink (my T410 is quite passively cooled and runs only a single Noctua Fan to make it very silent). 3) benefit from the Backup Cache that comes with the H730P 4) improve performance a bit (it was already good but hey..) The upgrade from the 9271-8i was simply a matter of replacing the HBA and the two multi-lane SAS cables (the H730P has different connectors). I was able to flash it under RHEL6.8 using the provided SAS BIN firmware which I downloaded from http://www.dell.com/support. Here's what megaclisas-status now says: # megaclisas-status -- Controller information -- -- ID | H/W Model | RAM | Temp | BBU | Firmware c0 | PERC H730P Adapter | 2048MB | 72C | Good | FW: 25.4.0.0017 c1 | LSI MegaRAID SAS 9280-4i4e | 512MB | N/A | Absent | FW: 12.15.0-0239 -- Array information -- -- ID | Type | Size | Strpsz | Flags | DskCache | Status | OS Path | CacheCade |InProgress c0u0 | RAID-0 | 1817G | 256 KB | ADRA,WT | Enabled | Optimal | /dev/sda | None |None c0u1 | RAID-5 | 21827G | 512 KB | ADRA,WT | Enabled | Optimal | /dev/sdb | None |None -- Disk information -- -- ID | Type | Drive Model | Size | Status | Speed | Temp | Slot ID | LSI Device ID c0u0p0 | SSD | S2HCNXAG903313W Samsung SSD 850 EVO 2TB EMT01B6Q | 1.817 TB | Online, Spun Up | 6.0Gb/s | 33C | [252:4] | 4 c0u1p0 | HDD | WD-WX41DA40LCE5WDC WD60EFRX-68MYMN1 82.00A82 | 5.456 TB | Online, Spun Up | 6.0Gb/s | 35C | [252:5] | 5 c0u1p1 | HDD | WD-WX41DA40L42RWDC WD60EFRX-68MYMN1 82.00A82 | 5.456 TB | Online, Spun Up | 6.0Gb/s | 34C | [252:6] | 6 c0u1p2 | HDD | WD-WX61DA4HAKFZWDC WD60EFRX-68MYMN1 82.00A82 | 5.456 TB | Online, Spun Up | 6.0Gb/s | 34C | [252:1] | 1 c0u1p3 | HDD | WD-WX41DA40LEF1WDC WD60EFRX-68MYMN1 82.00A82 | 5.456 TB | Online, Spun Up | 6.0Gb/s | 34C | [252:7] | 7 c0u1p4 | HDD | WD-WXA1D65E30XZWDC WD60EFRX-68MYMN1 82.00A82 | 5.456 TB | Online, Spun Up | 6.0Gb/s | 35C | [252:0] | 0 Regards, Vincent S. Cojot On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi everyone, > I'm probably gonna get a H730P to upgrade my PE T410 (currently running a > 9271-8i). Does anyone know if there are restrictions on the types of disks > useable on an H730P? Can anyone confirm that it allows non-Dell drives? > I have a Samsung SSD 850 and several WD Red NAS drives currently on my > 9271-8i. > > Thanks, > > Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
