Questions: 1. Which SSD did you purchase? 2. Which Highpoint card did you purchase? 3. Are you trying to use the 840's swappable drive bays? Or are you plugging the SSD directly to the MB/PCI card via SATA cable?
--Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 08:44:54 -0800 Subject: Grrr.... > Bought an SSD to put into an old Dell PowerEdge 840. Seems no matter what I > try I can't get joy on it. The server doesn't pick it up if I plug it into > one of the built-in SATA ports, and a PCI 2.0 SATAIII card (cheaper > Highpoint card) causes the OS (2008 R2) to bluescreen. Anyone see anything > similar and have a fix? > > If I use the SSD/USB transfer adapter, it works fine as a USB HDD, but an > 840 only has USB 2.0 so it limits to about 50Mb/sec, kind of defeating the > purpose of an SSD... > David Lum > Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM > Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
