Help me spec new server

[Jobos]

Update: In the end we went for the Dell 630 from @ICTDirect_Dave because of the increase of speed NVMe would give us but I'm struggling to configure RAID on the NVMe. The SAS drives are easy to RAID using the PERC controller but the NVMe drives are not connected to the PERC so I'm lost. Any advice?

[Steve21]

Nvme doesn’t normally run on hardware raid as they’re faster than the controllers etc. You normally do SW raid from the bios (unless you’re talking about using S2D/VSAN etc)

 

Steve

[Jobos]

I can't see the NVMe drives in the BIOS unless I'm looking in the wrong place but I can see the 4 drives in disk manager so I know they are there. Please could you elaborate how I would do this please?

[Jobos]

@Steve21 Do you mean this

The Dell R630 uses an S130 controller and I've followed the guide until 0:56 but there isn't any setting showing for NVMe under system BIOS setting and the S130 controller is not listing any drives. Maybe @ICTDirect_Dave could advise? RAID 1 would be good and RAID 10 even better