Connect a Dell PowerVault MD1200 for ZFS: is PERC H200e suitable?

[Tony]

I have a PowerVault MD1200 array that I would like to use with ZFS. Host is a PowerEdge R710. Is PERC H200e (also known as Dell 6Gbps SAS HBA Adapter) suitable for this task?

 

[Falk R.]

Yes, you can use this HBA.

 

[Tony]

does the MD1200 need a "more powerful" HBA? Or the only thing that matters is the bandwidth that the card can handle (6Gbps in this case). Sorry for my ignorance, I have very little experience with this kind of setup.

 

[Falk R.]

Hi, every SAS Cable has 4 Lanes with 6GBit Bandwidth. You have cumulative 24GBit per Cable and I think the PCIe 2.0 8x is the real Bottleneck.
For this old Server Is this OK.

 

[Tony]

@SkyDiver79 great answer, thank you very much.