I picked up a Dell H310 for a Supermicro system I'm building (846 chassis with SAS2 expander, X9 Mobo) and before I install this HBA I was planning to flash it as has been described in numerous posts. The main reasons I've seen listed for flashing these cards to IT mode is:
-Performance, especially for those interested in software RAID instead of hardware RAID. This may be related to posts I've seen describing an increase in queue depth with IT firmware.
-Removal of the bios from card so server boots/reboots are faster
-Leveraging LSI drivers instead of Dell drivers
Given this, I have two questions:
1) I won't be using hardware RAID, but I'll be testing some software RAID implementations (Storage Spaces/Storage Spaces Direct, SnapRaid) on Windows Server 2016. However, most flashing articles I've read reference technologies like ZFS so I'm wondering if there is as big a benefit to flashing if I'm using Windows Server 2016 and playing with it's various technologies?
2) As of today, if the P19 or P20 firmware recommended when using one of these cards in a Windows Server install?
-Performance, especially for those interested in software RAID instead of hardware RAID. This may be related to posts I've seen describing an increase in queue depth with IT firmware.
-Removal of the bios from card so server boots/reboots are faster
-Leveraging LSI drivers instead of Dell drivers
Given this, I have two questions:
1) I won't be using hardware RAID, but I'll be testing some software RAID implementations (Storage Spaces/Storage Spaces Direct, SnapRaid) on Windows Server 2016. However, most flashing articles I've read reference technologies like ZFS so I'm wondering if there is as big a benefit to flashing if I'm using Windows Server 2016 and playing with it's various technologies?
2) As of today, if the P19 or P20 firmware recommended when using one of these cards in a Windows Server install?