October 11, 2019 – Dan Langille's Other Diary

Installing internal PCI Slot SSD drive enclosures in a Dell R720

Leave a Comment / DELL, Disks, hardware, R720 / By Dan Langille / October 11, 2019

I like to build systems that boot using drives directly connected to the M/B. No HBA, no SATA cards, etc. I like the simplicity involved. Sometimes that target is hard to achieve. The first step to configuring the R720 was upgrading the firmware. I spent time on hardware selection, including power and data sources. I […]

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This post has been replaced by a new one. This replaces a previous post. I’ve been given a Dell PowerEdge 720. It contains 8 x 400GB SSDs and one 80GB SSD for the OS. I’ve added in a SAS 9207-8i card, as mentioned previously. The zpool: The filesystems: And dmesg: