Dear all,
for our Dubai location our hardware reseller recommended us that server including a "RAID-5 with 4 SATA 2TB disks". It sounded good, price was cheap, so we ordered it. Travelled to Dubai to setup the server (Windows Server 2012 R2). We found out very soon then that the RAID is a software based RAID. Not happy with it but gave it a shot (configured the disks as a RAID-5 with 4 disks), installed Windows Server 2012 R2 on it. Now the problems began. Crap performance, system hangs for minutes when copying data or doing several tasks on the server. RDP session hangs sometimes for 20 minutes until it comes back. This configuraion is just not useful.
We to to upgrade that server now with a hardware RAID-controller and/or SAS disks. Can anyone recommend which (HP) RAID controller is compatible with that server? Or should we try to give the server back?
Thanks,
Sven