Hello everyone. I acquired a dell t7500 that is loaded with 2 quad core xeons and ecc memory. I'm going to start using it as my primary server in the home and basically consolidate all my raspberry pi's and VPS's to this single machine.
I am looking for the "right:" hardware to do the job for the HDD setup. I know this is probably basic, but this is my first foray into doing it "right" with enterprise quality gear. here is the machine if you are interested in how it was configured from dell.
So the questions.
I am looking for the "right:" hardware to do the job for the HDD setup. I know this is probably basic, but this is my first foray into doing it "right" with enterprise quality gear. here is the machine if you are interested in how it was configured from dell.
Support for Precision T7500 | Overview | Dell US
www.dell.com
So the questions.
- Can I get a 12gb/s Sas HBA that will work on pcie gen 2?
- do i need a card with battery backup on board?
- how do I handle raid? In the HBA? (I plan on eventually moving to a disk shelf, but for now will be using internal HDD's)
- any reason not to use exos 10TB drives?
- other points I dont know/havent thought of?