If you have any feedback regarding its quality, please let us know using the form at the bottom of this page. This article may have been automatically translated. I cannot comment on these issues as I did not take that route.īefore buying, I would recommend visiting the Manufacturer's Website and verifying that the operating system and hardware you plan to use with this card is on their most recent certified configuration list. Summary:Configuring RAID in a Dell Precision Workstation See lessConfiguring RAID in a Dell Precision Workstation. Others have noted problems when installing a fresh OS to a disk connected to this controller. Once it was working correctly, I configured my single 15K SAS drive as a JBOD array, mirrored my OS to it from my old SATA HDD, and everything worked flawlessly. Manufactured for the Dell Precision 490 computer, the Dell GU083 is a reliable workhorse with surprising GHz capacities.
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Once updated, the card and the drivers associated with it worked perfectly. Improve your gaming experience and boost the graphics level for all of the programs on your desktop when you install the Dell GU083 motherboard.
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I also do not have access to a boot-capable USB Flash Drive.Īfter some trial and error, (four coasters) I finally created a bootable CD with the correct files and OS necessary to run their little BIOS update utility. Unfortunately, my system does not have a floppy drive, nor do I have access to one. Overall Review: To support my OS (WinXP 圆4, W2K3), the card required a BIOS update. It's a "fake" RAID controller, meaning it relies on your system to do all the work, and, I've been led to believe, the RAID configuration is not easily transferable to another PC. If you're just running one 15K SAS drive, you probably won't notice it. If you're planning to run two 15K SAS drives in RAID0, you're going to run into that bandwidth cap. As others have noted, this card appears to have a maximum of 150MB/s. Anyway, the Dell BIOS has an option for HDD mode, it's in there. The PCI-E 1X interface limits it to a maximum of 250MB/s bi-directional bandwidth. You can't just take drives that have a RAID array on them and expect them to work when you turn RAID off. It doesn't cost eight arms and two legs if you're looking to add an exotic SAS drive to an otherwise vanilla workstation or gaming PC.Ĭons: The card required a BIOS update to support the drivers for my OS (WinXP 圆4, Win2K3) It uses up that otherwise wasted PCI-E 1X slot featured on many motherboards nowadays. It comes with two otherwise overpriced SAS cables.
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