unraid card advise HP H240

[Drakenstrijder]

is a HP H240 (726907-B21) a good card for unraid?

 

and is it a good idea to put two in a setup for maximum sas possibility's?

[Windows7ge]

Well it's a SAS3/SATA HBA. Assuming UnRAID has a driver for it it should work with the OS and it's storage implementation.

 

Just be sure to put it into HBA mode.

[NelizMastr]

On 4/15/2021 at 4:36 PM, Windows7ge said:

Well it's a SAS3/SATA HBA. Assuming UnRAID has a driver for it it should work with the OS and it's storage implementation.

 

Just be sure to put it into HBA mode.

The H series from HP are all HBA only cards with their own firmware so it should be good to go  

[Windows7ge]

1 hour ago, NelizMastr said:

The H series from HP are all HBA only cards with their own firmware so it should be good to go  

I might have been looking at the wrong HPE product brief page then.

 

Edit: Oh it's more complicated than that. It is an HBA but it supports "Simple RAID Mode" (0/1/5/10).

 

So it is an HBA but it comes with some RAID functions.

[Drakenstrijder]

 

On 4/16/2021 at 11:03 PM, Windows7ge said:

So it is an HBA but it comes with some RAID functions.

is that a big problem for installing unraid? 

[NelizMastr]

25 minutes ago, Drakenstrijder said:

 

is that a big problem for installing unraid? 

It should be okay. I've used a H240 before in a VMware machine and saw each drive separately just fine without any RAID applied.

[Windows7ge]

1 hour ago, Drakenstrijder said:

 

is that a big problem for installing unraid? 

No, it has HBA mode. I haven't personally used this card but I assume it's a setting you specify on system boot. (Ctrl+letter)