We recently bought some HP Proliant microservers to replace some old DC's. We are trying to set them up as a raid 1 with server 2003. Windows does not see the hard drives and I have tried slip streaming every driver I could imagine onto the install with no luck. I know it uses AMD's raid controller but am not sure exactly which one.
I have gained responsibility over a system utilizing several HP ProLiant DL380 servers. I would like to switch to RAID6 and use SSDs, of which we have dozens (Samsung Evo 860). Unfortunately, these SSDs are consumer level SATA devices, and the current onboard RAID controller in these DL380s, being a P410, will throttle the interface speed down to 3Gbps.
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Taking all of this into consideration, could I simply purchase a newer RAID controller (like a P800) with a decent sized integrated battery backed cache to utilize these piles of SATA SSDs in a RAID6 array?
Edit: I mistakenly claimed my current RAID card is a p408i, when it is in fact a P410.
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P408i supports full transfer speed (6 gbps for SATA 3) per LANE and this RAID controller has only 8 lanes.Newest RAID controllers are supporting full interface speed per physical link.RAID-6 is not the best idea for consumer grade SSD's due to dual xor calculation. You'd better consider RAID-5/50/10.
Check this thread to get more feedbacks https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/263575-consumer-ssd-s-in-a-hp-proliant-server