Dell Power Edge T310

[Bentley81]

I picked up a lightly used Server that I am planning to use for some home storage and networking.  It came with a fresh install of Windows Server 2008 R2.  I am planning to use it for security cameras and a data backup for my photos that are currently around 700 GB of data.  It has support for RAID, but the controller inside can only handle 2TB drives.  I was hoping to change this so I could put some 6TB or larger drives in it.  It has the 4 hot swap bays in the front as well as redundant power supplies and GB Ethernet.  I have a huge library of VHS and was going to also use the server to record all this data.  I want to run Blueiris for the cameras as well as a few other applications that are Windows 10 compatible.  My two questions are, what would I use to upgrade the RAID to support more than 2TB per drive? Would installing Windows 10 be a hindrance over installing Windows Server 2016? What are some other things that I should do before I start writing a bunch of data to the machine and using it?  I haven't done anything with it yet since I don't want to setup the RAID and load it with data and then have to figure out how to pull it all off and write it back again.

 

Thanks! 

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, Bentley81 said:

e, what would I use to upgrade the RAID to support more than 2TB per drive?

Do you want hardware or software raid. H200 if software, h700 if hardware.

Do you have a seprate boot drive? Id get a ssd for boot + vms.

2 minutes ago, Bentley81 said:

Would installing Windows 10 be a hindrance over installing Windows Server 2016?

Id install a hypervisor(like proxmox, esxi, xcp-ng, or hyper-v server(windows server for vms only, its free too)

 

 

[Bentley81]

4 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Do you want hardware or software raid. H200 if software, h700 if hardware.

Do you have a seprate boot drive? Id get a ssd for boot + vms.

Id install a hypervisor(like proxmox, esxi, xcp-ng, or hyper-v server(windows server for vms only, its free too)

 

 

Which is better? Software or hardware to run raid?  I will add a separate boot drive for added redundancy.  So are you saying then to run windows server and then add a Hypervisor to it?  If so should I upgrade to the Windows Server 2016?

 

Thanks

[Electronics Wizardy]

11 hours ago, Bentley81 said:

Which is better? Software or hardware to run raid?  I will add a separate boot drive for added redundancy.  So are you saying then to run windows server and then add a Hypervisor to it?  If so should I upgrade to the Windows Server 2016?

 

Thanks

might as well run win server 2019 if you running win server.

 

WIndows serer has a hypervisor built in(hyper-v), you can use that or anouther hypervisor.