Recent content by Wentil

At the end of the day, I gave up on the ZCR card. I got a PCI-e Adaptec 5805ZQ, rewired the backplane with new cables (the motherboard cables were too short to reach the card) and was up and running.

@JIMH425: Yes, the boot drive is right now a single 128 GB SSD. I am hoping to enable the embedded Intel ESB2 RAID controller and make that RAID-1, using both 128 GB SSDs. (It works under Windows and all the major flavors of Linux, I was very surprised that VMware doesn't know how to use it)

Thanks for getting back to me on this, guys! @Lizardking009: I do have a pair of 3ware 9650 SE 4-port PCI-e RAID Cards kicking around somewhere, but they don't support SAS, only SATA, so I wouldn't be able to use these drives. Plus I'd have to rewire things, instead of using the built-in...

Hi, Everyone -- This is my first post to HF, and I sincerely hope that you guys can help me. I was very happy to find such a collection of pros in one place! I hope to be able to lend my own expertise to others' issues in the future. Here's my problem. I've got an older server, a 2U...