Hi,

Just wondering which raid card can be recommended, been looking at the 3ware 9650SE, from what i can tell its using a pci express format

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Dell offer a RAID controller with these?

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Yep, we generally use the SAS5i/R they offer with no problems....

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they do but problem with onboard raid controllers with dell servers is that they dont seem to like linux based oses which is a right pain,

Ricky, did you mean that card will work with the server?

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Gaz, they're not onboard controllers, they're expansion board controllers, and I've not had an issue yet with any modern *nix OS.

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we have a number of the 3ware 96xx series running under all flavours of linux no problem at all.

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