Hi everyone!
I bought a HP Proliant DL180 g6 a few months ago (after seeing an article here about some great deals! ^^).
It came without drives (8 empty slots) and with a P410 controller, with 256mb of battery backed cache.
It is running nicely (and loudly, it is a DL180 after all), except for one issue I have and which puzzles me, the controller refuses to synchronize hard drives and SSDs with anything but SATA1 speed (1.5gbps).
I am aware this controller does not support SATA3, but it should support SATA2 with no issues, and 6gbps SAS drives (i have no yet tried SAS drives, i can try on a couple of 146gb i have somewhere...).
I tried a Samsung 840 PRO 256gb, no luck, 1.5gbps link.
Same thing with Seagate Constellation ES SATA2 drives, always 1.5gbps link.
I have ruled out an issue with the controller drivers, as this is exactly the same with the offline Array Configuration Utility.
Technically, it is using a 8 drives backplane, connected to the p410 with 2 SAS cables. This looks normal to me...
I know for a fact that the 12 drives backplane should handle 3gbps SATA2 drives (there is a firmware upgrade specifically stating this support for this backplane, like here).
The questions are :
- is the 8 drives backplane limiting the speed?
- if yes, should i replace it with a 12 drives backplane? (it should physically fit, with no access to the 2 upper right slots...)
I also have another P410 controller that is sitting in a box. Should i swap the controllers?
The server is not yet in production, so i can try anything i want as long as i want... ^^
I bought a HP Proliant DL180 g6 a few months ago (after seeing an article here about some great deals! ^^).
It came without drives (8 empty slots) and with a P410 controller, with 256mb of battery backed cache.
It is running nicely (and loudly, it is a DL180 after all), except for one issue I have and which puzzles me, the controller refuses to synchronize hard drives and SSDs with anything but SATA1 speed (1.5gbps).
I am aware this controller does not support SATA3, but it should support SATA2 with no issues, and 6gbps SAS drives (i have no yet tried SAS drives, i can try on a couple of 146gb i have somewhere...).
I tried a Samsung 840 PRO 256gb, no luck, 1.5gbps link.
Same thing with Seagate Constellation ES SATA2 drives, always 1.5gbps link.
I have ruled out an issue with the controller drivers, as this is exactly the same with the offline Array Configuration Utility.
Technically, it is using a 8 drives backplane, connected to the p410 with 2 SAS cables. This looks normal to me...
I know for a fact that the 12 drives backplane should handle 3gbps SATA2 drives (there is a firmware upgrade specifically stating this support for this backplane, like here).
The questions are :
- is the 8 drives backplane limiting the speed?
- if yes, should i replace it with a 12 drives backplane? (it should physically fit, with no access to the 2 upper right slots...)
I also have another P410 controller that is sitting in a box. Should i swap the controllers?
The server is not yet in production, so i can try anything i want as long as i want... ^^