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Dell Servers Question
I know quite a few of you guys use Dell servers and as I cant find much on the Dell site about such a simple question I thought I'll ask here!
Do the Dell RAID controllers have battery's as standard? I cant see anything saying they do, or they don't. I'm looking at the R200 or R300 servers.
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Paul
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3rd November 2008
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The PERC Cards do, the SASxi/r cards dont.
J
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Jamie, Cheers for the quick reply!
PERC - As standard?
SASxi/r - Is this an option?
I've spent a while looking through the Dell site, and forums, and nobody seems to mention this!
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Perc is the upgrade one (£x00) SAS is the 'standard' raid controller, but still an upgrade over the SATA controller.
Dont think PERC is available on the R200's
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Cheers Jamie, Just trying to get my head around Dell's conventions! Looks like the PERC is an option for the R300 so I'll take a look at those 
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The SAS Cards are decent enough, but we always go PERC for the battery backup (and better foreign RAID Set import ability)
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The battery backup is the specific requirement I'm looking for - I'm used to being able to add it on to pretty much any of the 3ware cards I guess.
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the perc *4* series do, the perc 3 series dont
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lol it's obviously been a while since you last bought a perc card Rob, they're on 6 now
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Quote:
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lol it's obviously been a while since you last bought a perc card Rob, they're on 6 now |
Saves me posting it hehehe.
first elastictrickery.. now Perc6's whatever next for Rob :P
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Dan - Thanks for confirming that, I could see only the "PERC6E" which confused me!
Have you got any good contacts at Dell? I'm going to guess so as I remember your factory visit - and I'm guessing the truck full of Dell boxes last week was yours!
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The Perc 6E is the PCI card (E for External)
assuming you want an integrated card, you want the 6i card.
J
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At the moment we add in 3ware (PCI-X or PCI-E) so I guess by "external" you mean the RAID controller will be a PCI-E/X card rather than built into the mainboard?
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Dell + 9000 series 3ware+battery work nicely
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulC
At the moment we add in 3ware (PCI-X or PCI-E) so I guess by "external" you mean the RAID controller will be a PCI-E/X card rather than built into the mainboard?
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Ya,
the i cards plug in to a proprietary port, much easier than PCI-X/E and out of the way.
The E cards also have external connectors on the plate iirc.
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