HP N54L with a P212 raid controller

[TheSleeper]

Hi all,

new to the forum and first post.

I bought an N54L a while back and finally got round to sorting it. after a hard boot of the server the raid failed and which I discovered is the worlds worst raid, so I'm looking to upgrade to a hardware controller.

my question is has anyone put an P212 in to an N54L and did it work ok?

I'm only looking for a raid 1 so nothing too special.

 

[wildchild]

put a 1015 reflashed to 9211 in a n40l... thing is still running fine. am running zfs on it though so it is not running in raid mode

 

[Patriot]

Curious how the onboard B110i failed... it is the HP SA raidstack on top of the amd chipset... Anyhow... Yes a P212 will work though its a bit hard to cram in there... You will have to snip the ziptie holds on the minisas cable.

 

[gea]

If you are not limited to Windows you can just use the Sata ports in AHCI mode and add a superiour ZFS software raid.

 

[smccloud]

I run a P410/256 in my N40L. Just had to snip the zip tie and it is kinda hard to plug the cable in, but it works. Next will be a BBU which should be fun to find room for.

 

[canta]

as long as you put HP product on microserver, you HP raid card should works!
tested N40L 3 years ago with P410 and P2XX(do not remember the exact model).