Serious Dell Sadness - H200, H700, and H800

[Tom Daly]

Danny,

> you certainly got my attention this morning, since we are planning on
> making 2 similar boxes production next week!
> our Dell are R710 but the perc are H700, and running 8.2.
> they only have 4 disk of 1T each, and so far they are configured as
> r0 1 disk
> r5 3 disks
> and using zfs.

We suspect volume size may have something to do with it, so if you only have 4 drives, you may not be hitting the need for 64-bit LBA. This morning, we plan to run the same tests under Debian linux to isolate a hardware or OS/driver issue.

> Have been running bonnie++ on both, and so far, all is ok.
> any particular arguments for bonnie++?

None here, we're using bonnie++ too.
 
> I could add more disks to one, and try raid 10 (though I don't
> remember
> if that option exists)

H700 should support RAID 10.

Regards,
Tom