HP Microserver Gen10 AMD X3421 - Samsung EVO 870

[cishandfhips]

Hi

 

Back when schools had money we purchased a few HP Microservers. 

 

One was never used and has been sat in storage for 5 years. I want to use it as a Server 2022 VM Host for a DC. 

It only has 8gb of ram but its perfectly fine for a 4gb DC as it wont be doing a lot.

 

Its out and up and tested to make sure its still good. 

 

BUT

 

With the cost of enterprise SSDs going through the roof, as well as school budgets being tight, I bought a couple of 250gb EVO 870, with the intention of putting them into RAID1. Like I say all this server will be doing is hosting a 2022 DC. 

 

They are brand new (dated 2026)

 

But then I read that the Marvell Controller in the Gen10 Microserver doesn't play nice with SSD's (Especially the EVOs) 

 

The Server is (or will be) plugged into a good APC UPS with a new battery.

 

I only have two of these 870 EVO drives, Do I risk it and use the Marvell controller?

 

Or do I just use (Old School) Disk management and mirror the drives from there?

 

I cant use storage spaces because both drives need to blank in the first place. I don't know best the option?

 

Or do i just beg finance to let me buy another and use that as boot drive (Obviously wouldn't have any redundancy) 

 

Thanks 

[3s-gtech]

Why can't the drives be blank so you can use Storage Spaces? That should allow TRIM to work, which it may not do otherwise.

[cishandfhips]

Thanks for the reply

 

One drive has (or will have) Server 2022 on it

 

I looked into storages spaces and both drives have to be blank in order to create the mirror

[Davit2005]

Is it going to be your only DC? And only going to be responsible for AD roles?

 

TBH If it is an additional DC personally I would be thinking not to bother with raid (depending on your org needs 🙂 ), the issue with raid on these is I'm pretty sure it is only software based raid and with the limits of the MicroServer casing it will be difficult to get a hardware raid card to fit.