Afternoon everyone,
The motherboard is an Intel S2600CP w/2 CPUs and 64 GB of RAM.
The RAID card choices are as follows, an Adaptec 8805 or a LSI 9270CV-8i. The drives are 12Gb interface drives.
Using the LSI card, the Intel board will run that card at PCIe 3, however the drive interface is only 6Gb.
Using the Adaptec card, the board will drop the PCIe speed to 2.0, however the drive interface is 12Gb.
So, which is a better choice? As an FYI, the server will have Exchange 2016 on it.
The motherboard is an Intel S2600CP w/2 CPUs and 64 GB of RAM.
The RAID card choices are as follows, an Adaptec 8805 or a LSI 9270CV-8i. The drives are 12Gb interface drives.
Using the LSI card, the Intel board will run that card at PCIe 3, however the drive interface is only 6Gb.
Using the Adaptec card, the board will drop the PCIe speed to 2.0, however the drive interface is 12Gb.
So, which is a better choice? As an FYI, the server will have Exchange 2016 on it.