Hi All,
It's been a while since I last visited the forum. I see all is still going strong which is awesome!
I am currently in the process of switching to a new server. I am using a PowerEdge R510 which has 12 bays, a PERC 700 card and is using Server 2012 R2 Essentials and have currently acquired a brand new PowerEdge T630 with 18 drive bays that will be using a PERC HBA330 and will have Server 2016 Essentials. I will receive it this Friday, hopefully. The R510 has each drive setup in a raid0 configuration. I have hated this setup from the start so that's what I ordered the HBA instead. I currently have 12 - 4TB Seagate ST4000DM000 drives with only about 1.5 TB left of free space. I would love to start moving to the 6-8TB drives but I am not sure what would be the best route. Something else that I have been experiencing is a slowdown in write speed. Sometimes when I start a file copy from my PC to the server, it will stall for up to a minute then start transferring. Other times it will start and avg 112mb of the LAN and then just stop for a min then start transferring again. I am not sure if that is the drives causing the issue or the PERC card since the drives are in RAID0.
Any assistance or advice would greatly be appreciate.