I have called dell support dell sales and had multiple dell online chats.
Sas raid controller cables.
Sff 8087 compatible with popular raid cards such as 3ware 9650se 8lpml raid adaptec asr 5805 512mb sas raid 2258200 r 5405 raid 2258500 r 51645 raid dell perc h700 raid perc h200 dell poweredge 8 port sas sata controller perc h310 highpoint rocketraid 2720 rocketraid 620 rocketraid 4520 rocketraid 4522 lsi logic sas9211 8i.
The dell pec h730p x4ttx raid controller may fit in one of the pci e slots but will require sas cables with mini sas sff 8643 connectors.
A sas expander is a module that allows a sas controller card to use more sas sata drives than it would be able to use on its own because of the limited number of sas connectors on the card.
I am thinking about purchasing a dell perc h330 raid controller to increase my mirrored disk performance.
Raid 1 prevents data losses.
Therefore it is of no use to me.
Raid 0 also called disk striping improves write and read speeds by splitting data across different disks.
My poweredge t130 is configured with 2 2tb sata drives in a raid 1 mirror using the dell s130 software controller.
The disks work as a single partition and there s no data redundancy with the raid controller cards.
This controller is also not supported on the r720xd.
Raid 1 provides redundancy by writing identical data to two drives.
Raid 0 requires a minimum of two drives.
Cables tested and approved to ensure a successfully deployed storage solution.
In computing serial attached scsi sas is a point to point serial protocol that moves data to and from computer storage devices such as hard drives and tape drives sas replaces the older parallel scsi parallel small computer system interface usually pronounced scuzzy or sexy bus technology that first appeared in the mid 1980s sas like its predecessor uses the standard scsi command set.
The dell perc h730p mini mono 7h4cn raid controller will not physically fit on the system board of the dell r720xd.
We offer a wide selection of serial attached scsi sas cables with a variety of connectors sff 8482 sff 8484 sff 8470 etc making it easy to find the solution you need to complete your data storage configurations.
Lsi 9300 megaraid sas 9361 8i lsi00417 pci express 3 0 x8 low profile sata sas high performance eight port 12gb s raid controller single pack avago technologies internal connectors.