Dell PERC H310 out of the box? And performance? Suggestions?

[kankamuso]

Hi,

Just wanted to make sure that installation from Proxmox Isos will work out of the box for this RAID card. Also, as this card does not seem to sport BBU nor write back capabilities, I suspect performance will be terrible. Therefore, I would like to receive some feedback on which model should I include on our servers to upgrade from the h310... (That work out of the box under Proxmox or Debian+Proxmox)

thanks in advance,

jose

 

[thheo]

I have 2 Dell R720 with H710.. they work out of the box and the performance is great.

 

[kankamuso]

Great to hear that from your experience. This is very reassuring !!.

Thanks!

 

[X1M]

My best advice is to drop the H310 and get the H710 with BBU, you will not regret this but you will if you dont.

 

[spirit]

My best advice is to drop the H310 and get the H710 with BBU, you will not regret this but you will if you dont.

Hi,I'm using H710 too without any problem

 

[jonc]

My best advice is to drop the H310 and get the H710 with BBU, you will not regret this but you will if you dont.

Why?

 

[X1M]

With BBU you can safely activate ’write cache’ on your RAID controller, some controllers can’t even activate ‘write cache’ unless there is a BBU. This will give you a significant performance boost.

There is some more reading here: http://www.hostdime.com/blog/bbu-raid/

NOTE: And even better solution is to get a RAID controller with flash cache instead of a BBU. A more pricy solution but you don’t have to worry about changing the BBU when it runs flat.