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    • travisdh1T
      travisdh1 @BRRABill
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      @BRRABill said:

      Interesting tidbit you may or may not know. (I am sure you do.)

      While the H310 DOES support single drives non-RAID), the H710 does NOT. You can use a single drive by creating a single member RAID0 array.

      Not that you wouldn't always use RAID in a server. Just thought that was interesting.

      Good to know with my predilection for software raid, in that specific usage case an H310 will be just fine should I need another HBA.

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      • BRRABillB
        BRRABill @travisdh1
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        @travisdh1 said:

        Good to know with my predilection for software raid, in that specific usage case an H310 will be just fine should I need another HBA.

        After being a member here at ML, I have sworn off the H310.

        Going to sell mine on eBay rapido!

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @BRRABill
          last edited by

          @BRRABill said:

          Interesting tidbit you may or may not know. (I am sure you do.)

          While the H310 DOES support single drives non-RAID), the H710 does NOT. You can use a single drive by creating a single member RAID0 array.

          Not that you wouldn't always use RAID in a server. Just thought that was interesting.

          That's actually standard.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @BRRABill
            last edited by

            @BRRABill said:

            @travisdh1 said:

            Good to know with my predilection for software raid, in that specific usage case an H310 will be just fine should I need another HBA.

            After being a member here at ML, I have sworn off the H310.

            Going to sell mine on eBay rapido!

            It's perfectly good if you don't want any hardware RAID from the controller 😉

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            • BRRABillB
              BRRABill @scottalanmiller
              last edited by BRRABill

              @scottalanmiller said:

              That's actually standard.

              I figured.

              Trying to help out the other rooks. 😉

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              • BRRABillB
                BRRABill
                last edited by

                The results on my new EDGE SSD (from xByte) Raid 1 array:

                • MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]

                • KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

                  Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1185.227 MB/s
                  Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 488.470 MB/s
                  Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 387.262 MB/s [ 94546.4 IOPS]
                  Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 95.829 MB/s [ 23395.8 IOPS]
                  Sequential Read (T= 1) : 591.847 MB/s
                  Sequential Write (T= 1) : 498.278 MB/s
                  Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 28.838 MB/s [ 7040.5 IOPS]
                  Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 42.498 MB/s [ 10375.5 IOPS]

                  Test : 1024 MiB [F: 0.0% (0.1/293.0 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec]
                  Date : 2016/01/08 18:22:16
                  OS : Windows Server 2012 R2 [6.3 Build 9600] (x64)

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                • BRRABillB
                  BRRABill
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                  This is good, right? 😉

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                  • BRRABillB
                    BRRABill
                    last edited by

                    Another H710 question...

                    There are two areas I have questions on.

                    One is Read Policy.
                    The SATA array is set to "No Read Ahead"
                    The SSD array is set to "Adaptive Read Ahead"

                    One is Write Policy.
                    The SATA array is set to "Write Through"
                    The SSD array is set to "Write Back"

                    Are these settings determined by the type of disk?

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller
                      last edited by

                      I'm not sure if it detects and changes based on that or not.

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                      • BRRABillB
                        BRRABill @scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        @scottalanmiller said:

                        I'm not sure if it detects and changes based on that or not.

                        Is it possible those settings were set by the H310 and just migrated to the H710?

                        What SHOULD the settings be? What do they even mean?

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @BRRABill
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                          @BRRABill said:

                          @scottalanmiller said:

                          I'm not sure if it detects and changes based on that or not.

                          Is it possible those settings were set by the H310 and just migrated to the H710?

                          If you swapped the disks from one to the other, absolutely. Did you have to recreate the RAID arrays?

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