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    Seeking Advice: Unraid Installation on Dell PowerEdge T420

    I've scored two Dell PowerEdge T420 servers at a steal on Facebook Marketplace. I'm gearing up to install Unraid on one of them, and could use any insights available. Will Unraid play nice with iDRAC? Also, I've seen theres talk about flashing the RAID controller - any firsthand experiences or...
  2. RamGuy

    Dell PowerEdge R610, replacing Dell PERC H700 with something compatible with VMware ESXi 8.x?

    I have a Dell PowerEdge R610 server for LAB usage. As VMware ESXi 6.7 went end-of-life in October 2022, I decided it was time to upgrade. Instead of going with VMware ESXi 7.x I went straight to ESXi 8.x. The upgrade itself wasn't too difficult, have to workaround some unsupported CPU warnings...
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    Dell 15th gen servers with 3rd party ssd drives

    Currently looking at buying a RX750xs with h755 perc in 12 LFF chassis, but the prices listed for sata ssd are just insane. Have it configured with 4x 4TB Sata HDD from Dell and planning to get some additional ssds, like Intel D3-S4610, or Samsung PM883, or Micron 5300 max and put them in some...
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    Perc 6/i bricked after -cleanflash

    Hello, I have a Dell Perc 6/i that was working okay. I was trying to update the firmware via MegaRaid Storage Manager(MSM) but it gave me a error. So since i had flashed before a couple of PERC H310, i thought it would be the same. megarec -cleanflash 0 and it worked ok. megarec -m0flash 0...
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    Perc H310 locked SAS drives, and I don't want IT mode [Dell t7600]

    Just bought 4x14tb Seagate 12Gb SAS drives. 2/4 are easily detected for their correct size, the other two are blocked and only recognized as 1TB drives. And, ESXi doesn't even recognize the locked drives. Is flashing the card to IT mode the quickest way to address this? Will it even help see the...
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    H730 mini RAID 10 online expansion...anyone successfully done this?

    So I have a new R730xd with 15 x 1.6TB SSD's and a H730 mini PERC card and Im planning on running RAID10 for my array but before I committed I wanted to be sure that I am able to perform an expansion of the array without having to fully reset the entire configuration (and there-by requiring me...