I'm new to most of this in general so I will probably ask the wrong thing.
I bought a HP Z420 workstation box with the E5-2590 processor and 16GB of ECC ram. Plan to put 32 in it next. I have 2 SSD, both samsung. 128 gb and 256 gb I plan to use one as my OS and app/jail drive.
I've orded a LSI 9265-8i off the internet but I'm a bit worried about what it actually is since the posting also says (new DELL in box). So it's either a Dell controller or a LSI controller that was to be sold though dell. not sure won't know till I have hands on it.
But even without the card - This intel board and setup has a number of SATA ports. 2 6b/s, and what seems to be 4 and 4 - 3GB/s. other 4 being an intel raid controller - that I assume at the moment I can turn off.
Drives - planning on getting 4, HGST 3tb Ultrastor devices that are 7200 RPM sata III. Goal is to put them in Z1 configuration but I'm also reading on putting them as 2 stripped - mirrors as opposed to the Z1 config. And I will have a 5th drive as a ready backup.
Any obvious holes that I've over looked. Or major issues - I've been doing some searches and it seems some people have trouble with the Z420 box - and others used them easily.
I bought a HP Z420 workstation box with the E5-2590 processor and 16GB of ECC ram. Plan to put 32 in it next. I have 2 SSD, both samsung. 128 gb and 256 gb I plan to use one as my OS and app/jail drive.
I've orded a LSI 9265-8i off the internet but I'm a bit worried about what it actually is since the posting also says (new DELL in box). So it's either a Dell controller or a LSI controller that was to be sold though dell. not sure won't know till I have hands on it.
But even without the card - This intel board and setup has a number of SATA ports. 2 6b/s, and what seems to be 4 and 4 - 3GB/s. other 4 being an intel raid controller - that I assume at the moment I can turn off.
Drives - planning on getting 4, HGST 3tb Ultrastor devices that are 7200 RPM sata III. Goal is to put them in Z1 configuration but I'm also reading on putting them as 2 stripped - mirrors as opposed to the Z1 config. And I will have a 5th drive as a ready backup.
Any obvious holes that I've over looked. Or major issues - I've been doing some searches and it seems some people have trouble with the Z420 box - and others used them easily.