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Zeromega
Reviewed in Australia on July 9, 2024
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Mario Gomez
Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2023
I upgraded my server with this controller. So far it has been working flawlessly. My server is a PowerEdge T310 and it came with the PERC 6i which supports drives up to 2 TB. Now I can have bigger drives. Price is affordable for home use.
Bruce D Gabbard
Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2023
As promised and early delivery
palladin99
Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2023
The card arrived in near-pristine shape, BUT can confirm that this card comes WITHOUT a standard mounting bracket for tower applications.
Jeff G
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2022
This works perfectly in a Dell R710 that I built up in August 2022. I wanted to use higher capacity drives than the original PERC controller would allow. The install was simple and it's worked flawlessly for the past several months. After install, I added four 4TB HGST drives in RAID 5 to the server. This PERC H700 worked perfectly for this. The server has been running 24/7 for almost two months with VM's and an IP PBX phone system. The upgrade to the PERC H700 did exactly what it was supposed to do.
Customer
Reviewed in Canada on August 2, 2021
Had some issues. Helped out quick. Happy customer
Joe B
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2020
This is a good reasonable upgrade to to make. I like the bump in performance, I also noticed the drives get less wear and tear due to the 512MB cache. The drive read and write lights barely flash now under a lite load. This should also save some power. I upgraded the Perc 6/i to the H700 on a Dell R510 server attached to 6 3-1/2in 10k SAS drives in a raid5 configuration. I use this server for Vsphere v6.7 home lab and also noticed the datastore latency average is now under 1ms vs about 8 ms on the perc6/i. Again, this is a home lab with lite usage. This card does not come with a raid backup battery, however I was able to use the original perc6/i battery and cable. You will also need new SAS controller cables. Be sure to set the "write Back to on" and "adaptive read ahead" for better performance on the h700. The firmware was out of date on the h700 and I upgraded to the latest. The old raid5 config was imported with no error messages, but just gave me a lot grief. The raid5 virtual disk was visible and reported the correct size, but I could not load any O/S or ESXi. My solution, delete the original virtual disk and re-create a new raid5 virtual disk. Save yourself some time, backup the original data and re-create a new Virtual disk. Packaging was good, this was basically a new card sitting on a shelf for a number of years. A nice upgrade that gives me more options with larger disks and SSDs. The h700 is an old controller, but a good option to replace an existing super-old perc6/i. The reason to use this controller is to allow Dell iDrac and hardware disk failures to be reported to ESXi. I was able to add additional life to my R510. I have 20+ years of IT experience and hope this info is helpful.2020-04-05 UpdateI was so happy with the h700, that I ordered another one for a different server. The card came early based on pandemic shipping estimate. I was surprised that the latest firmware was already on it. This card was bad and flaky.The raid screen hung multiple times and was stuck at 2%, then 15% of initialization. Another time it was stuck with all drive lights flashing. This card replaced a fully working Perc6/i controller and drives. The vendor replaced this card with no questions asked. I updated the firmware to the latest version. Replacement card works great without any issues. I still stand by my comment good upgrade for the price. The vendor did the right thing by replacing the bad card and rather quickly.
Michael Alexander
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2020
It fits and works perfectly in my reconditioned Dell T610. I'm now able to use drives larger than 2TB, which was one of the big limits of the other controller they shipped with.You do need to buy new cables though, something the listing also says.
USPSA_Guy
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2019
What I've been reading is the PERC 6/i in my Dell R710 is limited 3Gb, while the H700 is a 6Gb. I didn't see a doubling in IOPs, but I did see a 25% increase in speed while doing backups using rsnapshot.You will need to change out the cables from the SAS backplane to H700. Shutting down the server and all of my VMs took longer than the 15 minutes to swap out the RAID card and cables..All the talk on Reddit says I would have to import my old RAID config as a foreign config. But, when I booted up the H700 said all my virtual disks were there and continued the boot process. It took no effort on my part, other than watch the boot process.Once the Ubuntu was running the Dell IDRAC software was complaining my H700 firmware needed an update. A quick trip the the Dell website got me a linux .bin file. I turned down my 6 VMs and other apps and executed the .bin file as root. 10 minutes later the firmware was update.Fired up the VMs and did a manual backup using rsnapshot. My backup times for 900 GB dropped from 5 hours to around 3 hours.This was the cheapest way to increase I/O performance in a R710.
KA / MA
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2019
I ordered this card to build a home file/storage server. This card worked without any issues for me. I was able to attach 6TB Seagate HDDs without any issue. I was pleasantly surprised that both Windows 7 and Windows 10 natively recognized the card without installation of any driver software.I had to get SAS-to-SATA cables and backup battery separately.I have tested this card successfully on a recent AMD AM4 system board and an old AMD AM1 based motherboard.As like many other RAID controller cards, this one also runs hot. So plan to provide adequate air flow inside the case.
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