Dell H700 Upgrade The Controller

Did you upgrade the controller card on the server There may be a ton of firmware updates in the IDRAC that need to be done.

Its more powerful than what Im using currently for unRAID and so Im wanting to migrate everything over to it.

The problem seems to be that the 2950 doesnt recognize drives larger than 2 TB and all four of my current drives are 4 TB.

From what Im seeing around online it looks like I can buy either a PCIe card like and connect to that to each drive OR it sounds like an IBM 1015 will replace a part in the PE 2950.

Does anybody know if either of these will work or is there something else that is better.

I cant remember what cables they use (its been a long time since Ive been inside a 2950), but I guess you could use a newer card.

The last remaining 2950 at work (a very late 2950-III) has a PERC6i and a H700.

The H700 is hooked up to a Powervault MD1200 external SAS box, and it supports 4TB drives OK.

Dell H700 Download Updates Right

This will need a network cable plugged into the ethernet port so you can download updates right from dell.

Ive been fiddling with it all day and havent got it to boot to any screen that would show where to update.

I think at this point though Im leaning more towards buying the IBM controller card, but Ill wait a few days incase someone knows it wont work or can suggest a better (or cheaper) alternative to getting 4 TB SATA drives to work.

You might have to manually update your LIfecycle controller and bios to the latest.

Honestly it might be worth installing Windows first to update all your firmware.

If you can findafford a dedicated idrac get it, itll make your life 10x simpler and worth it.

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