Examining the Dell PERC H310 Controller
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That the config screen during POST.
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Cool, thanks.
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Let me know what you want next, Guv'na!
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What? No more testing? Are we that MEH about this controller?
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Well, over the holiday I ordered a new H710 PERC controller for this new server of mine, that is still sitting dormant, waiting for Server 2016.
So the H310 will be going on eBay sooner than later.
Does anyone want to see any sort of performance numbers or anything else while I have it to play with?
Also ... is CrystalDisk in Windows a good disk speed test?
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@BRRABill said:
Well, over the holiday I ordered a new H710 PERC controller for this new server of mine, that is still sitting dormant, waiting for Server 2016.
So the H310 will be going on eBay sooner than later.
Does anyone want to see any sort of performance numbers or anything else while I have it to play with?
Also ... is CrystalDisk in Windows a good disk speed test?
Can that H310 act as an HBA? Just present the drives to the system? Would make Linux/UNIX style software raid viable maybe.
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@travisdh1 said in Examining the Dell PERC H310 Controller:
@BRRABill said:
Well, over the holiday I ordered a new H710 PERC controller for this new server of mine, that is still sitting dormant, waiting for Server 2016.
So the H310 will be going on eBay sooner than later.
Does anyone want to see any sort of performance numbers or anything else while I have it to play with?
Also ... is CrystalDisk in Windows a good disk speed test?
Can that H310 act as an HBA? Just present the drives to the system? Would make Linux/UNIX style software raid viable maybe.
Typically the answer is... sort of. It makes RAID 0 out of each and presents that, not the drives themselves.
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I think we are still up in the air as to whether this is FakeRAID or not.
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@scottalanmiller , the H200, H310 and IBM M1015 using the same chipsets are real raid controllers just without caching or BBU. They're entry level devices meant for entry-level servers but are widely sought after for those running software "raid" (i.e. BTRFS, ZFS, and mdadm) due to their ability to be used in IT mode.
I have created Raid 5, 6, and 10 arrays on these units and imported them successfully on other, more feature complete, controllers such as the H710 and P420.
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@manxam thanks.
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No worries. I know a little bit about these as I tend to hoard them when I can find them cheap. I use ZFS at home and at the office and have a relatively large "array".
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I still have it around if you want to test.
