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Jean-Paul Natola Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 13:27:05 -0400 Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] PERC Integrated vs Card From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Options B and C are both for cards with external connections. Your 8 drives are internal, right? You'll be fine with the H700. http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/04/campaigns/dell-raid-controllers On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:14 PM, J- P <[email protected]> wrote: Hi all, I ordered a new (outlet actually ) dell server- its an r710 8x 600gb sas 48 gigs of ram I want a raid 10 using 6 drives with 2 hot spares, this will host a 2012 server and 3 guest, File Server Citrix Server SQL Server / accounting app They are asking if I want to keep the integrated card (PERC H700 Integrated RAID Controller 512MB Cache) or upgrade to; B) PERC6E SAS RAID Controller 2x4 Connectors, External, PCIe512MB Cache, Customer Install [$849.99] C) Dell PERC H800 External RAID Controller Card [$809.99 Any thoughts / suggestions /recommendations? TIA JP

