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on the HP DL380p 25 disk sff version whats the sff backplane and expander speed? Reading the specs i can assume its 12g so with a controller like p830 it should be able to work at full speed.

anyone has experience with the above setup ?

Thx in advance

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It's an expander, so it's oversubscribed.

Your individual disk link speeds are going to be 6Gbps. There's no advantage to using a P830 controller over the embedded P420i controller in that system.

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  • so i guess the only way to fully utilize 12g disks on gen8 is with an enclosure like d3700 ?
    – Nicholas Papadakos
    May 22, 2020 at 20:17
  • What is your goal? Why does the disk link speed important to you?
    – ewwhite
    May 23, 2020 at 2:56
  • I want to create a vmware storage. I wss thinking of around 20 sas ssd disks in a raid 10 array for vms storage.
    – Nicholas Papadakos
    May 23, 2020 at 10:23
  • VMware storage performance won't be sequential to a point where the SAS link speed or throughput matter.
    – ewwhite
    May 23, 2020 at 11:16
  • i see , thx for your time
    – Nicholas Papadakos
    May 23, 2020 at 12:59

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