I have a used Dell poweredge 430 w/PERC H730 Can I use this w/TruNAS??
It will work like a champ. I am running it on a R610
Not reccomended. I don’t believe the H730 can be flashed into a “proper” HBA. It is and will remain a RAID controller. Yes it has an HBA mode that many say works, until it doesn’t.
If you do use it then make sure that its flashed with the latest firmware.
Your choice - I wouldn’t
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In short: Strongly recommented to replace the H730 by a HBA (330, I think).
Then you can certainly use the PowerEdge with TrueNAS.
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I have Truenas installed on my R430 with a a H730. and it works like a charm.
Disks configured as shown in the attached image.
So what?
The H730 is a RAID Card. Its not reccomended. I didn’t say it won’t work. It may well work, but evidence here suggests it will break eventually
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So nothing, just making a statement…
the H730 is fine..?
is there evidence of this card or ones like it in particular breaking or is this just more of the typical sentiment…?
the biggest problem with it is the battery, which will probably be dead by now, just remove it… ZFS doesn’t need the write cache (that is disabled in HBA mode anyways)
The h730 works perfectly. I have a dell T330 with x8 16TB drives under TrueNAS. The h730 firmware from dell let’s you put it in hba mode and pass the disks through. Been running for years and nothing even close to an issue.
See here How To Convert RAID mode to HBA Mode on Dell PERC | Dell Serbia