I have been running FreeNAS at home on an old HP DL380 G5 with 32GB RAM for a few years now, and I'm quite happy with it - All that memory gives shockingly good performance sharing iSCSI to my ESXi server, despite the "slow" disks I have in it, all those CPU cores give great jail performance, and to top it all off, it keeps the water pipes in my basement from freezing in winter.
The problem is, that I'm still using the original P400 RAID controller, with each of my 8 disks set up as its own RAID0 device. Yuck. I need to put an M1015 HBA in my box!
So to those who have successfully installed an M1015 in their DL380 G5 (I'm hoping to hear from you, sfcredfox!), I'd like to ask, what did you have to do to get it to work? Specifically:
- Can the existing backplane be used?
- Do the drive caddy LEDs still work?
- Does the M1015 plug in to the same slot that the P400 was in, or does it go at the back of the case?
- Were 2 cables (SFF-8087 to SFF-8484) needed?
- Does hot swap (finally) work?
Basically any tips plus a shopping list would be greatly appreciated :)
Cheers,
-Rexpo
The problem is, that I'm still using the original P400 RAID controller, with each of my 8 disks set up as its own RAID0 device. Yuck. I need to put an M1015 HBA in my box!
So to those who have successfully installed an M1015 in their DL380 G5 (I'm hoping to hear from you, sfcredfox!), I'd like to ask, what did you have to do to get it to work? Specifically:
- Can the existing backplane be used?
- Do the drive caddy LEDs still work?
- Does the M1015 plug in to the same slot that the P400 was in, or does it go at the back of the case?
- Were 2 cables (SFF-8087 to SFF-8484) needed?
- Does hot swap (finally) work?
Basically any tips plus a shopping list would be greatly appreciated :)
Cheers,
-Rexpo