I'd have to do some math if the native 8 connections with ssds can even go beyond PCIE2. Both 740p & 730p are designed for Poweredges with 16x or 24x backplanes/Sas expanders. If not - then you'd be look at needing to do offline RAID/disk management in cards BIOS.Īs far as performance hit with new PERCS in older systems - it's just the potential bottleneck of the PCIE 2.0 on mobo as the cards are PCIE 3.0 However this really only an issue if you had lots of 12Gbps SSDs. Not sure if the R5500 even allowed for online RAID management with the supported PERC6. Not sure what OS your aiming for but did lookup its system management drivers and did not see any Openmanage available for win10/7.
I mounted the SSD on a plate that sits in between the top of the backplane drive cage and the bottom of the lower 5 1/4" drive bay, there is about a 1 1/2" space available there.ĭell Precision R5500 as not had too much experience with Precision. I know putting the hypervisor on an SSD is a waste, but at $39.99 it was a more cost effective, and easier, setup than going with a USB flash drive that is on Microsoft's hardware compatibility list. In this setup I'm running Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 on a 64GB Transcend SSD370, connected to the SATA_B port on the MoBo, and two Server 2012 R2 VM's on the OBR10 mentioned in my above post. Over the last 20 years I have never had one fail prematurely on me, but their reputation after the 2011 floods has made me leery of the large capacity 3.5FF Seagate's, and I have tended to use WD or HGST/Hitachi drives for the last 5 years. To be honest, I have had great luck with Seagate drives. They were indeed brand new, had a DOM of Sept2016, and were mounted in real Dell trays, so I did not complain. I ordered a Dell part number that should have been WD4001FYYG's but they sent me Seagate ST4000NM0025's. I originally was looking at going with HGST Ultrastar 7K4000's, but I found brand new Dell branded drives, with tray, for about the same cost as going the HGST route when you consider that I would have needed to buy 4 additional trays. I do not know if this a factor for you or not, but is another thing to consider. After thinking about it, after posting last night, another advantage of the H730 is that it supports 4Kn drives.
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