Is IBM M1015 able to working well on Dell PE 9250 w/ 8 x 3Tb HGST drives?

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Hi, TrueNAS Gurus !

On this thread https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/cant-install-freenas-on-dell-poweredge-2950.16999/ described how to modify Dell PE 9250:
- install IBM M1015;
- reflash motherboard to new BIOS to avoid fan alert + make fan alert;
Really appreciate this work! ;)

I need to make the same with my Dell PE 9250 (ver III).


So could You be so please to give me a suggestions:
1.
Is this possible to connect 8 of 3Tb (3Gb/s) SAS HGST drives to IBM M1015 and having STABLE SOLID AS ROCK WORK 24/7/365 ?

2.
Would be IBM M1015 a “bottleneck” for whole data stream from all of 8 x 3Tb (3Gb/s) drives?
Which better (faster?) controller for HBA/IT mode You suggest ? (I understand that in this case I need NIC with more bandwidth, and may be more CPU/bus power, but let this for later...)

3.
What happened if later I would like to upgrade all 8 drives to 8-16Tb (6Gb/s) SAS drives, IBM M1015 still keep working well?

Thank You all for detailed suggestions!
 

sybreeder

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Do you mean pe 2950?

1. Yes.

2. For regular hard drives ( sata And SAS) no. Only for ssd it would.
3 this dell supports only PCIe gen 1 So performance will be limited
I'm using m1015 crossed flashed go it mode and it works with 8TB and bigger drives without any issues.
 
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Do you mean pe 2950?
Of course, Dell PE 2950.
Sorry my mistyping...

1. Yes.

2. For regular hard drives ( sata And SAS) no. Only for ssd it would.
Good news ;)

3 this dell supports only PCIe gen 1 So performance will be limited
Also good to read this. ;)
For next 2023 Year (and may be more) this would be enough. And next upgrade would be EMC with each HDD more than 3 Tb... ;)

I'm using m1015 crossed flashed go it mode and it works with 8TB and bigger drives without any issues.
Could You be so please to point me on a seller tat propose truly IBM M1015 ?
I need more than 3.

Thank You so much for help!
 
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